Re: [media] winbond-cir: Move a variable assignment in wbcir_tx()
From: SF Markus Elfring
Date: Wed Oct 19 2016 - 10:11:29 EST
>> * How do you think about to avoid a variable assignment in case
>> that this memory allocation failed anyhow?
>
> There is no memory allocation that can fail at this point.
Do you really know the failure probability for a call of the
function "kmalloc" (within the function "wbcir_tx") under all
possible run time situations?
>> * Do you care for data access locality?
>
> Not unless you can show measurable performance improvements?
Did any software developer (before me) dare anything in this direction?
Regards,
Markus