From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Sanford, Robert" Subject: Re: [PATCH] malloc: fix rte_free run time in O(n) free blocks Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 09:24:13 -0500 Message-ID: References: <8858820.pzz9KGdcSJ@xps13> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org" To: Thomas Monjalon Return-path: In-Reply-To: <8858820.pzz9KGdcSJ@xps13> Content-Language: en-US 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" Hi Thomas, >Some patches like this one are not yet reviewed because efforts were >focused=20 >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=20 >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? Thanks, Robert