On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:11:27AM -0500, Seth Jennings wrote:
> On 05/10/2012 09:47 AM, Nitin Gupta wrote:
>
> > On 5/10/12 10:02 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >> struct zs {
> >> void *ptr;
> >> };
> >>
> >> And pass that structure around?
> >>
> >
> > A minor problem is that we store this handle value in a radix tree node.
> > If we wrap it as a struct, then we will not be able to store it directly
> > in the node -- the node will have to point to a 'struct zs'. This will
> > unnecessarily waste sizeof(void *) for every object stored.
>
>
> I don't think so. You can use the fact that for a struct zs var, &var
> and &var->ptr are the same.
>
> For the structure above:
>
> void * zs_to_void(struct zs *p) { return p->ptr; }
> struct zs * void_to_zs(void *p) { return (struct zs *)p; }
>
> Right?
I though this, too but didn't tried it.
We DO REALLY want it?
Why should zsmalloc support like such strange interface?
I want to solve the problem in zcache, not with zsmalloc.
>
> --
> Seth
>
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