Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:47:07 -0500 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout |
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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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