>> * How do you think about to avoid a variable assignment in case >> that this memory allocation failed anyhow? > > There is no memory allocation that can fail at this point.
Do you really know the failure probability for a call of the function "kmalloc" (within the function "wbcir_tx") under all possible run time situations? >> * Do you care for data access locality? > > Not unless you can show measurable performance improvements? Did any software developer (before me) dare anything in this direction? Regards, Markus
