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SubjectRe: Memory allocation question
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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