Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:47:31 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Use extents for recording what swap is allocated. |
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On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 08:06:36AM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > IIRC, I avoided list.h because I only wanted a singly linked list (it > never gets traversed backwards). List.h looks to me like all doubly > linked lists. Do you know if there are any other singly linked list > implementations I could piggy-back? > > That said, since there's normally not that many extents, I could switch > quite easily and it wouldn't normally waste much memory.
If the overhead doesn't matter for you (and I doubt it does) I'd say just use list.h. Reusing existing code that doesn't need to be debugged and is idiomatically readable to everyone is very helpfull.
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