Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:51:50 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Memory allocation question |
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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.
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