From: Saeed Mahameed > Sent: 15 June 2017 22:43 > Allocating buffers on the heap every 200ms is something we should avoid, > let's use buffers located on the stack instead. ... > + u32 in[MLX5_ST_SZ_DW(ppcnt_reg)] = {0};
How big is that? Allocating large on-stack buffers is even worse. One kzalloc() every 200ms isn't going to be noticeable. David