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			| Re: [PATCH] cgroup: prefer [kv]zalloc over [kv]malloc+memset in memory controller code. [message #41963 is a reply to message #41900] | Mon, 01 November 2010 19:59  |  
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					|  Jesper Juhl Messages: 7
 Registered: October 2010
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	| On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Johannes Weiner wrote: 
 > On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 08:40:56PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
 > > Hi (please CC me on replies),
 > >
 > >
 > > Apologies to those who receive this multiple times. I screwed up the To:
 > > field in my original mail :-(
 > >
 > >
 > > In mem_cgroup_alloc() we currently do either kmalloc() or vmalloc() then
 > > followed by memset() to zero the memory. This can be more efficiently
 > > achieved by using kzalloc() and vzalloc().
 > >
 > >
 > > Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
 >
 > Looks good to me, but there is also the memset after kmalloc in
 > alloc_mem_cgroup_per_zone_info().
 
 Dang, I missed that one. Thanks for pointing it out.
 
 Hmm, I'm wondering if we should perhaps add kzalloc_node()/vzalloc_node()
 just like kzalloc() and vzalloc()..
 
 
 > Can you switch that over as well in
 > this patch?  You can pass __GFP_ZERO to kmalloc_node() for zeroing.
 >
 
 Sure thing.
 
 
 Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
 ---
 memcontrol.c |    9 +++------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
 
 diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
 index 9a99cfa..bc32ffe 100644
 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
 +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
 @@ -4169,13 +4169,11 @@ static int alloc_mem_cgroup_per_zone_info(struct mem_cgroup *mem, int node)
 */
 if (!node_state(node, N_NORMAL_MEMORY))
 tmp = -1;
 -	pn = kmalloc_node(sizeof(*pn), GFP_KERNEL, tmp);
 +	pn = kmalloc_node(sizeof(*pn), GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO, tmp);
 if (!pn)
 return 1;
 
 mem->info.nodeinfo[node] = pn;
 -	memset(pn, 0, sizeof(*pn));
 -
 for (zone = 0; zone < MAX_NR_ZONES; zone++) {
 mz = &pn->zoneinfo[zone];
 for_each_lru(l)
 @@ -4199,14 +4197,13 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_alloc(void)
 
 /* Can be very big if MAX_NUMNODES is very big */
 if (size < PAGE_SIZE)
 -		mem = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
 +		mem = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
 else
 -		mem = vmalloc(size);
 +		mem = vzalloc(size);
 
 if (!mem)
 return NULL;
 
 -	memset(mem, 0, size);
 mem->stat = alloc_percpu(struct mem_cgroup_stat_cpu);
 if (!mem->stat) {
 if (size < PAGE_SIZE)
 
 
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