On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Christoph Lameter writes: > > > The zeroing of a page of a arbitrary order in page_alloc.c and in hugetlb.c > > may benefit from a > > clear_page that is capable of zeroing multiple pages at once (and scrubd > > too but that is now an independent patch). The following patch extends > > clear_page with a second parameter specifying the order of the page to be > > zeroed to allow an > > efficient zeroing of pages. Hope I caught everything.... > > Wouldn't it be nicer to call the version that takes the order > parameter "clear_pages" and then define clear_page(p) as > clear_pages(p, 0) ?
clear_page clears one page of the specified order. clear_page cannot clear multiple pages. Calling the function clear_pages would give a wrong impression on what the function does and may lead to attempts to specify the number of zero order pages as a parameter instead of the order. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
