Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Feb 2017 18:54:55 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] spi: allocate spi_board_info entries one by one |
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On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:24:17AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 09:16:50AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 08:18:56PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > Lists of spi_board_info entries registered with spi_register_board_info() > > > can be quite long; instead of forcing memory allocator find contagious
> > Do you have numbers on that?
> Hm, so the largest array seems to be in > arch/blackfin/mach-bf537/boards/stamp.c at max of 43 entries. The new > board info is ether 60 or 72 bytes, so we get 2 or 3K table. Not above > page, but still could be packed I think.
Oh wow, that's impressively large. Still not sure the optimization is particularly worth it though, it's small change in the grand scheme of things. OTOH it's a small change.
> If we decide that we want to keep single chunk I'll just change the > allocation to kcalloc. Let me know.
I'd be inclined to do that because it requires less thinking about the value of what should be a very small optimization either way but whatever :)
> We should probably redo patch #1 to avoid allocating empty property sets > anyway.
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