Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jan 2000 23:10:30 +0000 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: [patch-2.3.40-pre6] kzalloc() (ala kmem_zalloc() of SVR4) |
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On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> > The only thing it does is to introduce a new non standard name which > > makes current code less readable. > > Incorrect, it makes code smaller and more readable at the cost of > extra function call and an if.
Jes' and Ingo's assertions boil down to the fact that there is probably a lot of code which does:
struct foo * p = alloc_somehow(sizeof(foo)); memset(p, 0, sizeof(foo));
where it should use a little extra clues to know that a full zeroing of the structure is unnecessary.
Search the archives for Jakub Jelinek's patch yesterday (or the day before) which applied that logic to some of the signal code and found significant potential savings.
Matthew.
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