Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:52:51 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout |
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On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:47:07 -0500 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 05:21:30PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > 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. > > It'll mean m-1 scatterlists fit on a slab.
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