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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix array overflow in CFQ
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:16:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101021171600.GA6277@gargoyle.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x49fwvz1o8c.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com>

> > Agreed.
> >
> > Jens, do you want me to regenerate your patch so that we increase the
> > size of ->busy_queues_avg[CFQ_PRIO_NR] but not ->service_trees[][].
> 
> Just be sure to put a huge comment in there so you don't confuse the
> poor masses trying to make sense of the code.

Right now the code is confusing, with a correctly sized array it would
be completely straight forward.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-21 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-19  9:10 [PATCH] Fix array overflow in CFQ Andi Kleen
2010-10-19 10:01 ` Jens Axboe
2010-10-19 11:49   ` Vivek Goyal
2010-10-19 11:55     ` Jens Axboe
2010-10-19 12:33     ` Vivek Goyal
2010-10-19 13:23       ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-19 15:05         ` Vivek Goyal
2010-10-21 16:53           ` Jeff Moyer
2010-10-21 17:16             ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-10-21 17:15               ` Jeff Moyer

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