David Rientjes wrote: > On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > >> On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:14:00 -0700 >> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> Hang on. Isn't this why Dave just wrote and I just rush-merged >>> lib/flex_array.c? >>> >>> Was that code evaluated for this application and judged unsuitable? If so, >>> for what reason? >> Should it be helpful: I wrote an overview of the flex_array API here: >> >> http://lwn.net/Articles/345273/ >> >> I could format it up for addition to Documentation/ if people want. >> > > It's definitely helpful for this use case, flex array can store 261,632 > pid_t's on 64 bit. > flex_array surely can be used here, or implement Paul's proposal: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/15/226 Note both solutions will probably make the output pid list unsorted. Or maybe we can implement flex_array_sort(). _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
