netdev.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: joe@perches.com
Cc: anirban.chakraborty@qlogic.com, error27@gmail.com,
	amit.salecha@qlogic.com, Linux-Driver@qlogic.com,
	sucheta.chakraborty@qlogic.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] qlcnic: using too much stack
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:01:21 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100810.000121.48516818.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1281411546.1954.102.camel@Joe-Laptop.home>

From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:39:06 -0700

> On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 20:31 -0700, Anirban Chakraborty wrote:
>> On Aug 10, 2010, at 7:33 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 18:43 -0700, Anirban Chakraborty wrote:
>> >> Your patch is fine except that the preferred way is to use kzalloc over kaclloc. kzalloc does not need that extra
>> >> argument that you are passing to kcalloc.
>> > You probably meant to write "my preferred way"
>> > as the kcalloc to "kzalloc with a multiply"
>> > ratio is pretty high.
>> I was suggesting based on the following:
>> http://lwn.net/Articles/147014/
> 
> Note that article suggests kzalloc for allocating
> a single zeroed object.
> 
> kcalloc is used for multiple zeroed objects and
> protects against oversized allocations.

Agreed, kcalloc should be used here.

      reply	other threads:[~2010-08-10  7:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-09 10:37 [patch 2/2] qlcnic: using too much stack Dan Carpenter
2010-08-09 16:46 ` Anirban Chakraborty
2010-08-09 18:42   ` Dan Carpenter
2010-08-10  1:43     ` Anirban Chakraborty
2010-08-10  2:03       ` Joe Perches
2010-08-10  3:31         ` Anirban Chakraborty
2010-08-10  3:39           ` Joe Perches
2010-08-10  7:01             ` David Miller [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20100810.000121.48516818.davem@davemloft.net \
    --to=davem@davemloft.net \
    --cc=Linux-Driver@qlogic.com \
    --cc=amit.salecha@qlogic.com \
    --cc=anirban.chakraborty@qlogic.com \
    --cc=error27@gmail.com \
    --cc=joe@perches.com \
    --cc=kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=sucheta.chakraborty@qlogic.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).