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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 21:58:22 +0000
Subject: Re: md: Combine two kmalloc() calls into one in sb_equal()
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To: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org

> Irrelevant, the variable is not used before checking it.

* Will it be more appropriate to attempt another memory allocation only if
  the previous one succeeded already?

* Can it be a bit more efficient to duplicate only the required data
  in a single function call before?

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Markus