From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, menage@google.com,
vda.linux@googlemail.com, mikew@google.com,
xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com,
hpa@zytor.com, bblum@google.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] flexible array implementation v4
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:02:28 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A692444.2030303@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090723152647.D9391722@kernel>
Dave Hansen wrote:
> Remaining issues:
> - How should we deal with out-of-range indexes, especially
> in flex_array_get() which returns void*? ERR_PTR()?
> BUG_ON()? return NULL (current behavior)?
> - Should care be taken not to allow a flex_array_get() to
> an index where no flex_array_put() was done?
> - Should we decay further than just packing things into the
> 'base' page? Should we actually kmalloc() less than a
> page at times when it will fit?
>
I sugguest find some candidate users and see how this flex_array
fits them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-24 3:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-23 15:26 [RFC][PATCH] flexible array implementation v4 Dave Hansen
2009-07-24 0:08 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-07-24 3:02 ` Li Zefan [this message]
2009-07-24 3:08 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-07-24 3:26 ` Benjamin Blum
2009-07-24 15:07 ` Paul Menage
2009-07-24 23:38 ` Andrew Morton
2009-08-14 17:56 ` Dan Williams
2009-08-14 19:02 ` Dave Hansen
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