netdev - Re: [net-next v2 03/13] net: remove inet6_reqsk

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Date:	Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:04:07 +0300
From:	Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@...el.com>
To:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [net-next v2 03/13] net: remove inet6_reqsk_alloc

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Octavian Purdila
> <octavian.purdila@...el.com> wrote:
>> Since pktops is only used for IPv6 only and opts is used for IPv4
>> only, we can move these fields into a union and this allows us to drop
>> the inet6_reqsk_alloc function as after this change it becomes
>> equivalent with inet_reqsk_alloc.
>>
>
> Or use kmem_cache_zalloc() so that inet_reqsk_alloc() doesn't have
> to init ->opt to NULL explicitly.

Wouldn't that be costly?
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