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    SubjectRe: PATCH 2.3.26: kmalloc GFP_ZERO
       From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu
    Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 12:55:58 -0700

    > the idle task will be less fast in rescheduling itself.

    Why?

    He's trying to say that if you're zero'ing pages in the idle loop, the
    latency between checks of current->need_resched will be longer. I
    think he's overestimating the cost of zero'ing a single page.

    Later,
    David S. Miller
    davem@redhat.com

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