On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Cyril Plisko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Peter Buckingham
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi Cyril,
>>
>> Cyril Plisko wrote:
>>>
>>> I am recently spending quite some time getting acquainted with COMSTAR
>>> source code and it seems that the code could use some cleanups. Both
>>> cstyle and various small non-cstyle.
>>> Is there any interest in such cleanups ? If so I am willing to
>>> contribute it - this work has a nice side effect of helping me
>>> understand code better :)
>>
>> I'd suggest sending the diffs along and we can work through them.
>>
>
> Peter,
>
> ok, here we go:
>
>
> o 03-kmem_alloc.patch
>
> This patch changes calls to kmem_alloc() to kmem_zalloc(). I believe
> it is cleaner (the buffers coming from kmem_alloc() are deterministic)
> that way and in one place it helps simplifying the code somewhat (see
> stmf_sbd.c:867)

zalloc has its overhead, so there should be some reason to zero-fill
the structure before using it. If there's some non-trivial
initialization, kmem_cache would be more suitable.

Regards,
Andrey
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