From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH] malloc: fix rte_free run time in O(n) free blocks Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 16:29:22 +0200 Message-ID: <1732920.vAAxgJ8rHH@xps13> References: <8858820.pzz9KGdcSJ@xps13> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: "dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org" To: "Sanford, Robert" Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Sender: "dev" 2014-05-09 09:24, Sanford, Robert: > Hi Thomas, > > >Some patches like this one are not yet reviewed because efforts were > >focused > >on release 1.6.0r2. This enhancement must be integrated in 1.7.0. > >I know that patchwork service is desired and I hope it will be available > >soon. > > I realized that you guys had been very busy with 1.6.0r2. I just wanted to > make > sure that lower-priority patches didn't fall through the cracks. > > >By the way, looking at librte_malloc, it seems implementation of lists > >could > >be simpler. Don't you think we could improve (in another patch) this > >whole > >code by using BSD macros for lists? > > Yes, I was surprised to find the malloc code not using any kind of list > functions/macros. I am willing to rework the patch. By BSD list macros, I > believe you are referring to QUEUE(3) and sys/queue.h. It that right? Yes I'm referring to QUEUE(3). So I wait for your rework. Thanks -- Thomas