Hello, Andrew. On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 02:40:41PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > In that case tjpointer_add() would need to do a kmalloc() for each inode > which is added to the bdev/cdev, just as ptrset_add() is doing. > > That might require a nasty preload thing. But really, for just two > known callers it would be better to require the caller to create the > storage. > > > struct tjpointer *new_tpj; > > new_tpj = kmalloc(...); > lock(); > tjpointer_add(&my_tjp_list, new_tjp, my_pointer); > unlock(); > > Basically what I'm saying is nuke the rbtree and use lists. Hah? Then, each removal would be O(N) where N is the number of total block devices and there are cases where massive number of block devices exist and many are added / removed back-to-back. I don't think making those operations O(N^2) is a good idea. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html