Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753175Ab3CJSUK (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:20:10 -0400 Received: from mail.tpi.com ([70.99.223.143]:1644 "EHLO mail.tpi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752836Ab3CJSUI (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:20:08 -0400 Message-ID: <513CCED3.7080705@canonical.com> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:20:03 -0600 From: Tim Gardner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130221 Thunderbird/17.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Tucker CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Trond Myklebust , "J. Bruce Fields" , "David S. Miller" , Tom Tucker , Haggai Eran , Or Gerlitz , Shani Michaeli , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Steve Dickson Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-next] SUNRPC: rpcrdma_register_default_external: Dynamically allocate ib_phys_buf References: <1362929953-63785-1-git-send-email-tim.gardner@canonical.com> <513CBFD6.1000504@opengridcomputing.com> In-Reply-To: <513CBFD6.1000504@opengridcomputing.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 592 Lines: 19 On 03/10/2013 11:16 AM, Tom Tucker wrote: > > This is the result of 2773395b34883fe54418de188733a63bb38e0ad6. Steve > might want to weigh in on this since it was done for performance reasons. > > Tom > It seems to me that the cost of a kmalloc()/kfree() is negligible compared to network speeds. rtg -- Tim Gardner tim.gardner@canonical.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/