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Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote:

> Thank you ! About performance, this current port is slower than the
> original Linux code, because it adds a few malloc() that could be
> avoided I guess. The problem is I don't know how to use the locking 
> systems.

I'm guessing this port doesn't make any use of the zone allocator? If 
not, significant performance could likely be gained by using it as 
opposed to simply kmalloc(9).

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Ryan Sommers
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