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From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
	Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@lip6.fr>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Coccinelle <cocci@systeme.lip6.fr>
Subject: Re: [Cocci] [v3 2/3] coccinelle: api: extend memdup_user rule with vmemdup_user()
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 08:24:22 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2007220823050.2918@hadrien> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <07a06754-94dd-60b1-1ad1-9e602c86b1f8@web.de>



On Wed, 22 Jul 2020, Markus Elfring wrote:

> > Markus, you are welcome to try this since you are concerned about it.
>
> I dare to point software design variations for some reasons.
>
>
> > But it doesn't matter.
>
> Under which circumstances would you begin to care more for involved differences
> in corresponding run time characteristics?

When the difference is hours vs seconds.  In this case, there are
tradeoffs between the two options, andI don't know which would be faster,
but I think it is extremely unlikely that the difference is noticible.
But if you are concerned about it, you are welcome to try.

julia
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-22  6:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <e3d2ffb9-2a47-3d77-0501-9d48845435bd@web.de>
2020-07-21  9:58 ` [Cocci] [PATCH v3 2/3] coccinelle: api: extend memdup_user rule with vmemdup_user() Julia Lawall
     [not found]   ` <0b326e2b-723c-3482-c0ef-5d6592a9c6cb@web.de>
2020-07-22  6:02     ` Julia Lawall
     [not found]       ` <07a06754-94dd-60b1-1ad1-9e602c86b1f8@web.de>
2020-07-22  6:24         ` Julia Lawall [this message]

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