Am 03.02.2014 13:07, schrieb Felix Fietkau:
> On 2014-02-03 12:22, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
>> Am 03.02.2014 03:09, schrieb Sujith Manoharan:
>>> Oleksij Rempel wrote:
>>>> + rx_stats = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ath_rx_status), GFP_KERNEL);
>>>> + if (unlikely(rx_stats == NULL)) {
>>>> + ath_err(common, "rx_stats allocation filed!\n");
>>>> + goto err_nofree;
>>>> + }
>>>> + rx_status_htc_to_ath(rx_stats, &rxbuf->rxstatus);
>>>> +
>>
>>> This seems a little expensive, since this would happen for every packet,
>>> and a memcpy is already done earlier, for storing the RX status in
>>> rxbuf->rxstatus. Instead of using 'struct ath_htc_rx_status' in
>>> 'struct ath9k_htc_rxbuf', why can't 'struct ath_rx_status' be used ?
>>> The values can be converted and stored directly, avoiding this alloc.
>>
>> Do you mean kzalloc or converter?
>> then memcpy is removed by patch 12/13. Converter is not effective but it
>> should prevent from confusions. At least until FW use same flags and
>> struct ath_rx_status do.
>> But i'm open for other ideas too.
> You should at least keep rx_stats on stack instead of using kzalloc,
> that would make it much faster.You right, i'll do it. Beside what is the smallest stack size in kernel i need to count on? -- Regards, Oleksij
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