[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] malloc: no need to zero out memory on zmalloc

Sergio Gonzalez Monroy sergio.gonzalez.monroy at intel.com
Tue Jul 5 13:01:16 CEST 2016


Zeroing out memory on rte_zmalloc_socket is not required anymore since all
allocated memory is already zeroed.

Signed-off-by: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy at intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c
index 47deb00..f4a8835 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c
@@ -123,11 +123,7 @@ rte_malloc(const char *type, size_t size, unsigned align)
 void *
 rte_zmalloc_socket(const char *type, size_t size, unsigned align, int socket)
 {
-	void *ptr = rte_malloc_socket(type, size, align, socket);
-
-	if (ptr != NULL)
-		memset(ptr, 0, size);
-	return ptr;
+	return rte_malloc_socket(type, size, align, socket);
 }
 
 /*
-- 
2.4.11



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