Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: More on bigger kdev_t | Date | Sun, 10 Oct 1999 21:45:40 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> I think you'll find that the pointer code is faster than the current code. > Each time the pointer is dereferenced is to get something we want.
Most of the time we are getting the minor value of foo and using it as an index into something. If you were to rewrite the block layer and clean all the drivers up you might be right. The block cleanup is a post 2.4 item
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