linux-kernel - Re: Want comments regarding patch

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Date:	Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:07:36 -0300
From:	"Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@....utfsm.cl>
To:	"Daniel Marjamäki" <daniel.marjamaki@...il.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Want comments regarding patch 

Daniel Marjamäki <daniel.marjamaki@...il.com> wrote:
> I sent a patch with this content:
> 
> -       for (i = 0; i < MAX_PIRQS; i++)
> -               pirq_entries[i] = -1;
> +       memset(pirq_entries, -1, sizeof(pirq_entries));
> 
> I'd like to know if you have any comments to this change. It was of
> course my intention to make the code shorter, simpler and faster.

- Is this code in some fast path? If so, I'd set up a constant array that
  is memcpy()'d over the variable (or used to initialize it) as needed.
- If not, what is the point? Shaving off a few bytes/cycles and paying for
  that with massive developer confusion? What if the constant changes and
  is -2, or 1, tomorrow?
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