On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Paulius Zaleckas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant Likely wrote: >> The IRQ array is fixed size. You can add it to the mdio_gpio_info >> structure and then just set the pointer here so that only one kzalloc >> is needed. > > It can be put in mdio_gpio_info, but please note that mdio_gpio_info is > allocated with kzalloc() and irq with kmalloc(), because there is no need > to fill this array with zeros(see below).
Adding an additional 32 words to be zeroed in the mdio_gpio_info kzalloc is considerably cheaper than doing an additional kmalloc. Plus, once the array is zeroed it is then in the cache and so the filling it with -1 also becomes cheaper. g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
