Re: [2.6.19 PATCH 3/7] ehea: queue management

From: Jörn Engel
Date: Fri Aug 18 2006 - 10:31:04 EST


On Fri, 18 August 2006 15:25:11 +0200, Thomas Klein wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >>+ queue->queue_length = nr_of_pages * pagesize;
> >>+ queue->queue_pages = vmalloc(nr_of_pages * sizeof(void *));
> >
> >
> >wow... is this really so large that it warrants a vmalloc()???
>
> Agreed: Replaced with kmalloc()

kzalloc() and you can remove the memset() as well.

Jörn

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