From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: single linked list header in kernel?
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:55:10 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <416D7A0E.50503@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2004.10.13.18.25.41.367757@smurf.noris.de>
Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> I dunno, though -- open-coding a singly-linked list isn't that much of a
> problem; compared to a doubly-linked one, there's simply fewer things that
> can go horribly wrong. :-/
True. This is likely why it hasn't yet been done.
I wonder how many places use the double-linked lists because they're there, not
because they actually need them. If its significant, there could be some space
savings due to only needing one pointer rather than two.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-13 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-12 18:15 single linked list header in kernel? Chris Friesen
2004-10-13 5:50 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-10-13 14:57 ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-13 18:25 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-10-13 18:55 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2004-10-14 0:19 ` Tonnerre
2004-10-14 0:16 ` Tonnerre
2004-10-14 4:18 ` Kevin Puetz
2004-10-14 21:39 ` Antonio Vargas
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