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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 2/3] spi: allocate spi_board_info entries one by one
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On 02/28/2017 07:54 PM, Mark Brown 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.

The Blackfin machine files shouldn't be used as valid example. While in
theory it is possible to build a kernel with that many entries nobody is
ever going to do that. What the Blackfin machine files do is basically a
poor man's overlays from the days before overlays existed. Most of the
entries in the table use the same chip-select pins, it wouldn't be possible
to use use a setup where more than two or three of the entries is enabled
at the same time.

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