Subject: Re: tape drive instrumentation, again
To: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/15/2006 10:53:00
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:28:01PM +1030, Brett Lymn wrote:
>
> > - use malloc/free rather than MALLOC/FREE
> > unless it's in a critical path.
>
> Mmmm the only place I have used MALLOC/FREE is in the nfs code, all
> the other mallocs in that function are MALLOC, besides it's in the nfs
> mount path which may be important if you are mounting root over nfs :)
>
Nevermind about this - I have changed the ones I put there to
malloc/free after soda-san patiently explained to me why it was a good
thing :)
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Brett Lymn