Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 02 Apr 2005 22:14:34 +0200 | From | Manfred Spraul <> | Subject | Re: kernel stack size |
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Steven Rostedt wrote:
>I admit you really need to know what you're doing to use this method. If >I believe that a kmalloc would be too expensive, then I use the locking >of static variables. But each situation is different and I try to use >the best method for the occasion. > > Have you benchmarked your own memory manager? kmalloc(1024, GFP_KERNEL) is something like 17 instructions on i386 uniprocessor.
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