On 3/4/21 03:01, Kanchan Joshi wrote: > On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 3:14 AM Chaitanya Kulkarni > <Chaitanya.Kulkarni@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 3/2/21 23:22, Kanchan Joshi wrote: >>> + if (!ioucmd) >>> + cptr = &c; >>> + else { >>> + /*for async - allocate cmd dynamically */ >>> + cptr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct nvme_command), GFP_KERNEL); >>> + if (!cptr) >>> + return -ENOMEM; >>> + } >>> + >>> + memset(cptr, 0, sizeof(c)); >> Why not kzalloc and remove memset() ? > Yes sure. Ideally I want to get rid of the allocation cost. Perhaps > employing kmem_cache/mempool can help. Do you think there is a better > way? > Is this hot path ?