On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 03:24:01PM -0800, Andrii Nakryiko wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 7:13 PM Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2024-12-13 at 19:44 -0700, Daniel Xu wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > with Eduard's suggestion this also becomes interesting when you have > > > > 000mmm mix (as one example), because that gives you a small range, and > > > > all values might be valid keys for arrays > > > > > > Can you define what "small range" means? What range is there with 0's? > > > Any pointers would be helpful. > > > > I think Andrii means that each 'm' adds 8 bits of range. > > E.g. range for 0000_000m is 0-255, range for 0000_00mm is 0-65535, etc. > > yes, exactly, thank you, Eduard! Gave it some thought. Still seems like a good idea, but I'd prefer to leave this extension for a separate patchset. Mostly b/c I'm running out of space in my head to grok everything :P. Probably higher likelihood of me getting the existing stuff correct if I don't add more scope. Thanks, Daniel