Re: Memory allocation question
Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:51:50 -0200 (BRST)
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, george anzinger wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > size chuncks. Currently I am using kmalloc() to allocate a page at a
> > > time. I don't want to have to worry about mapping/unmapping etc. I
> >
> > Use get_free_page() to get page sized chunks
>
> What about __get_free_page() ? I don't need or want the clear page
> (performance issues).
get_free_page() doesn't clear the page afaics.
regards,
Rik
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