On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Andrew Morton<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:26:47 -0700 > Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> linux-2.6.git-dave/include/linux/flex_array.h | 46 ++++ >> linux-2.6.git-dave/lib/Makefile | 2 >> linux-2.6.git-dave/lib/flex_array.c | 269 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > I haven't looked at this lately but I merged it. > > As it's obviously non-injurious, we could slip it into 2.6.31 for > convenience's sake but without any callers that's just runtime bloat. > So I guess we wait for some additional callers to come along and prove > its worth. > I am considering using this for managing the descriptor ring in a device driver, but I am concerned with the overhead of the divides. Would it be acceptable to round the element size to the next power-of-2 value so we can replace all the divides with shifts? Thanks, Dan _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
