linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/9] VFS: Introduce a mount context

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Date:   Thu, 04 May 2017 07:34:39 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mszeredi@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] VFS: Introduce a mount context

On Thu, 2017-05-04 at 10:27 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> 
> > krealloc would probably be more efficient and possible
> > readable as likely there's already padding in the original
> > allocation.
> 
> Given there's a maximum of 3 slots, I think it makes better sense to just
> allocate them all up front.

Sounds good to me.
Simpler is frequently better.