linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] rust: less allocation in CString::try

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Message-ID: <20250915195305.1309fea2@nimda.home>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:53:05 +0300
From: Onur Özkan <work@...rozkan.dev>
To: Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@...labora.com>
Cc: rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, ojeda@...nel.org, alex.gaynor@...il.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] rust: less allocation in CString::try_from

On Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:38:32 +0200
Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@...labora.com> wrote:

> Hi Onur, thanks for working on this :)
> 
> The commit title doesn’t parse very well, can you rework it?
> 
> — Daniel
> 
> 

Hi Daniel,

As Alice mentioned in [0], my assumption about reducing allocations was
wrong. Looking at the KVec implementation details this patch doesn't
actually change anything other than how the code looks. We can safely
ignore it. I should have checked that, sorry.

[0]:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAH5fLgi-VrhDSEjJA4Bg+5Wmr2JDAmmOc1FkfZAZ29SMqkX++w@mail.gmail.com/

Thanks,
Onur