[PATCH RFC] 1/2 central workspace for zlib

[Jörn Engel]

On Mon, 2 June 2003 16:59:25 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 16:53, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > Maybe lazy allocation.  vmalloc() it with the first write(), which
> > should be never in production use.  So the extra overhead doesn't
> > really matter.
> 
> Seems reasonable.

Patch is in CVS.

Not 100% sure about the correct return code, if the lazy allocation
fails.  Can you check that?

Matsunaga, I guess that the extra memory you now have on your machine
has more impact on performance than statical allocation would have.
Translate the saved memory into a monetary unit and you even have a
lart that works for managers.

Jörn

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