Re: [PATCH] ibmvscsi: avoid unnecessary use of kzalloc_pool

[Brian King]

Acked-by: Brian King <brking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Sage Weil wrote:
> The allocated struct is manually zeroed after allocation, so avoid using
> the (broken) kzalloc mempool (which does not re-zero previously used items
> when they are returned to the pool).
> 
> CC: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc.c b/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc.c
> index 166d964..bb2c696 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc.c
> @@ -4217,7 +4217,7 @@ static int ibmvfc_alloc_mem(struct ibmvfc_host *vhost)
>  	if (!vhost->trace)
>  		goto free_disc_buffer;
> 
> -	vhost->tgt_pool = mempool_create_kzalloc_pool(IBMVFC_TGT_MEMPOOL_SZ,
> +	vhost->tgt_pool = mempool_create_kmalloc_pool(IBMVFC_TGT_MEMPOOL_SZ,
>  						      sizeof(struct ibmvfc_target));
> 
>  	if (!vhost->tgt_pool) {


-- 
Brian King
Linux on Power Virtualization
IBM Linux Technology Center


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