Re: [PATCH 0/4] sched: Minor cleanups

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Mon Apr 10 2017 - 05:33:05 EST


On 27-03-17, 15:58, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 05:05:55PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Here are few minor cleanups for the sched core. The first three tries to
> > avoid reinitializing memory which is already set to zero and the last
> > one drops an unused statement.
> >
>
> I'm OK with the kzalloc/memset thing,

I assume that you are fine with removal of memset as done in the first
3 patches. Or you are fine with just the first patch?

> but I'd prefer to keep all those
> other bits.
>
> Yes they're superfluous, but this is init code, so nobody cares about
> performance and having those things explitic makes it easier to read.

Sure.

> As to the very latest patch, that's there so that if/when we extend that
> array we can simply continue. Also its more symmetric/consistent. Any
> half sane DCE pass should get rid of it anyway, as the result is unused.

But we aren't going to extend the array all the time and keeping a
statement like that just for symmetry doesn't sound that great :).
Anyway, I will drop the last patch as you suggested.

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viresh