Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 10:04:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 10:04:46 -0400 Received: from carisma.slowglass.com ([195.224.96.167]:35342 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 10:04:45 -0400 Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 15:10:06 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Thunder from the hill Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Rik van Riel , Tomas Szepe , Zach Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5] Single linked headed lists for Linux, v3 Message-ID: <20020928151006.A911@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Thunder from the hill , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Rik van Riel , Tomas Szepe , Zach Brown References: <20020928144722.A356@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from thunder@lightweight.ods.org on Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 08:00:33AM -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 791 Lines: 18 On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 08:00:33AM -0600, Thunder from the hill wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > All of those are utter crap. Older gcc's had some little inlining > > problems that generated suboptimal code, but that's cured now and I > > don't thikn it even made a difference for the small list_* functions. > > I think if we scale slists to be like lists, we don't need to make the > difference at all. twice the size of each entry is a big enough difference. No need to add ugly code as second criteria. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/