Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] spi: allocate spi_board_info entries one by one

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 09:15:12PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 7:54 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:24:17AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> >> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 09:16:50AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 08:18:56PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> >> > > Lists of spi_board_info entries registered with spi_register_board_info()
> >> > > can be quite long; instead of forcing memory allocator find contagious
> >
> >> > Do you have numbers on that?
> >
> >> Hm, so the largest array seems to be in
> >> arch/blackfin/mach-bf537/boards/stamp.c at max of 43 entries. The new
> >> board info is ether 60 or 72 bytes, so we get 2 or 3K table. Not above
> >> page, but still could be packed I think.
> >
> > Oh wow, that's impressively large.  Still not sure the optimization is
> > particularly worth it though, it's small change in the grand scheme of
> > things.  OTOH it's a small change.
> 
> Given this is done during early boot, what's the probability of not having
> sufficient contiguous memory?
> 
> >> If we decide that we want to keep single chunk I'll just change the
> >> allocation to kcalloc. Let me know.
> >
> > I'd be inclined to do that because it requires less thinking about the
> > value of what should be a very small optimization either way but
> > whatever :)
> 
> Tada...
> 
> commit f9bdb7fdd2cac17bdc9c344b6036e6939fa087cd
> Author: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date:   Fri Jan 13 12:28:04 2017 +0100
> 
>     spi: Use kcalloc() in spi_register_board_info()

Or even kmalloc_array() as zeroing out memory is not needed. But I'll
let Mark sort it out and drop my patch #2.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry