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Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] spi: allocate spi_board_info entries one by one

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On 02/28/2017 07:54 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:24:17AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 09:16:50AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 08:18:56PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>>>> Lists of spi_board_info entries registered with spi_register_board_info()
>>>> can be quite long; instead of forcing memory allocator find contagious
> 
>>> Do you have numbers on that?
> 
>> Hm, so the largest array seems to be in
>> arch/blackfin/mach-bf537/boards/stamp.c at max of 43 entries. The new
>> board info is ether 60 or 72 bytes, so we get 2 or 3K table. Not above
>> page, but still could be packed I think.
> 
> Oh wow, that's impressively large.  Still not sure the optimization is
> particularly worth it though, it's small change in the grand scheme of
> things.  OTOH it's a small change.

The Blackfin machine files shouldn't be used as valid example. While in
theory it is possible to build a kernel with that many entries nobody is
ever going to do that. What the Blackfin machine files do is basically a
poor man's overlays from the days before overlays existed. Most of the
entries in the table use the same chip-select pins, it wouldn't be possible
to use  use a setup where more than two or three of the entries is enabled
at the same time.

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[PATCH v2 2/3] spi: allocate spi_board_info entries one by one Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> - 2017-02-28 05:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] spi: allocate spi_board_info entries one by one Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2017-02-28 10:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] spi: allocate spi_board_info entries one by one Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2017-02-28 21:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] spi: allocate spi_board_info entries one by one Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-02-28 21:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] spi: allocate spi_board_info entries one by one Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> - 2017-02-28 23:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] spi: allocate spi_board_info entries one by one Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> - 2017-02-28 22:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] spi: allocate spi_board_info entries one by one Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> - 2017-03-01 03:20 +0100

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