netdev - Re: [for-next 01/11] net/mlx5: E-Switch, Refactor vport representors initialization

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Date:   Wed, 20 Dec 2017 12:57:34 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     saeedm@...lanox.com
Cc:     dledford@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, leonro@...lanox.com, markb@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [for-next 01/11] net/mlx5: E-Switch, Refactor vport
 representors initialization

From: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 12:33:30 -0800

> +int esw_offloads_init_reps(struct mlx5_eswitch *esw)
> +{
> +	struct mlx5_core_dev *dev = esw->dev;
> +	struct mlx5_esw_offload *offloads;
> +	struct mlx5_eswitch_rep *rep;
> +	int total_vfs = MLX5_TOTAL_VPORTS(dev);
> +	u8 hw_id[ETH_ALEN];
> +	int vport;

Reverse christmas-tree please.

> +	esw->offloads.vport_reps =
> +		kcalloc(total_vfs, sizeof(struct mlx5_eswitch_rep),
> +			GFP_KERNEL);

That looks really unpleasant:

	x = kcalloc(y,
		    z, GFP_KERNEL);

would look so much nicer.