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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add a scatter-gather list type and
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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:49:56 +0000
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Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

> > +    if (qsg->nsg == qsg->nalloc) {
> > +        qsg->nalloc = 2 * qsg->nalloc + 1;
>
> Do you really want exponential growth verses linear growth?  The sg
> lists should be relatively small so linear growth should be fine.

If they're small it shouldn't make a any real difference...

Paul