netdev - Re: [PATCH] phylib: add mdio-gpio bus driver (v2)

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Date:	Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:16:42 +0000
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
Cc:	Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@...tonika.lt>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk,
	linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] phylib: add mdio-gpio bus driver (v2)

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 09:30:10AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 07:08:06AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> >> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Paulius Zaleckas
> >> <paulius.zaleckas@...tonika.lt> 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.
> >
> > Actually no, it doesn't become cheaper.  You're making the assumption
> > that cache lines are allocated when memory is written to.  This isn't
> > the case with the vast majority of ARM CPUs.
> 
> Okay, I wasn't aware of that on ARM.
> 
> However it is still true that increasing the size of the kzalloc is
> cheaper than doing 2 allocs.

Yes, that 'irq' array might as well be part of the same structure.
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