From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:07:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.168.28]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m0L47WiP004044 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:07:35 -0800 Received: from filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 4D064CAAFCC for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:07:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu (filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu [130.245.126.2]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id MIwv4GWlhLD0b6A3 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:07:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:07:40 -0500 From: "Josef 'Jeff' Sipek" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] XFS: Replace custom AIL linked-list code with struct list_head Message-ID: <20080121040740.GA14938@josefsipek.net> References: <1200875757-26598-1-git-send-email-jeffpc@josefsipek.net> <20080121040422.GA25541@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080121040422.GA25541@infradead.org> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 04:04:23AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 07:35:57PM -0500, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek > > --- > > > > I tested it with xfsqa, and things work as well as they do without it. > > I like this a lot, but I think Dave has plans to replace the linked list > with a more efficient data structure soon, so it might not actually be > worth applying. I've spoken with him about this, and he wants to have a tree where the leaves have linked lists (if I understood correctly). So this just makes it easier/cleaner for him. Josef 'Jeff' Sipek. -- Hegh QaQ law' quvHa'ghach QaQ puS