Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:21:30 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout |
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Alan Cox wrote: > Why can't we just make the list one item longer than the entry count and > stick a NULL on the end of it like normal people ?
Certainly seems safer than the current "let's run off the end of the list if anything bad happens" setup... And I do not think allocating n+1 scatterlist entries will have much of a negative impact.
Jeff
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