Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 9 Nov 1999 22:40:50 +0100 (CET) | | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | | Subject | Re: PATCH 2.3.26: kmalloc GFP_ZERO |
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On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, David S. Miller wrote:
>No, as Victor has stated you don't call standard memset, you inline >code it in the architecture specific idle loop and there you can >check need_resched in between every store instruction if you feel >it necessary.
So you'll waste some more instruction cache with the start, stop, restart from last, stop, restart from last algorithm.
Andrea
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