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Date:	Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:03:21 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Anirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@...gic.com>
Cc:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>,
	Amit Salecha <amit.salecha@...gic.com>,
	Linux Driver <Linux-Driver@...gic.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Sucheta Chakraborty <sucheta.chakraborty@...gic.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org" <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] qlcnic: using too much stack

On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 18:43 -0700, Anirban Chakraborty wrote:
> Your patch is fine except that the preferred way is to use kzalloc over kaclloc. kzalloc does not need that extra
> argument that you are passing to kcalloc.

You probably meant to write "my preferred way"
as the kcalloc to "kzalloc with a multiply"
ratio is pretty high.

It's actually about 2.5 to 1 in favor of kcalloc.

$ grep -rw --include=*.[ch] kcalloc * | wc -l
419

$ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] "\bkzalloc\s*\(\s*\w+\s*\*\s*\w+" * | \
  grep -vP "\bkzalloc\s*\(\s*sizeof\s+\*\s*\w+\s*," | wc -l
164

(the grep -vP avoids kzalloc(sizeof *p, GFP_foo)

Actually, there might be a reason to use kzalloc
in that location to match the other similar use
a few lines away, but I'd prefer that the other
use be converted to kcalloc.

cheers, Joe

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