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

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.

If we decide that we want to keep single chunk I'll just change the
allocation to kcalloc. Let me know.

We should probably redo patch #1 to avoid allocating empty property sets
anyway.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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