[Pixman] [PATCH v13 06/14] pixman-filter: reduce amount of malloc/free/memcpy to generate filter

Bill Spitzak spitzak at gmail.com
Sat Mar 5 02:34:55 UTC 2016


On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Søren Sandmann <soren.sandmann at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 1:25 AM, <spitzak at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com>
>>
>> Rearranged so that the entire block of memory for the filter pair
>> is allocated first, and then filled in. Previous version allocated
>> and freed two temporary buffers for each filter and did an extra
>> memcpy.
>>
>> v8: small refactor to remove the filter_width function
>>
>> v10: Restored filter_width function but with arguments changed to
>>      match later patches
>>
>> v11: Removed unused arg and pointer from filter_width function
>>      Whitespace fixes.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay at gmail.com>
>>
>
> I'm not opposed to this patch if it is correct (and I'll believe the
> existing Reviewed-by for correctness), but I'm also don't think there is
> much point to this -- these malloc() and free() calls are unlikely to be
> performance bottlenecks.
>
> Acked-by: Soren Sandmann <soren.sandmann at gmail.com>
>

This is certainly correct, it would have been obvious in my tests if it did
not work.
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