Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965261AbVIOEXL (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:23:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965262AbVIOEXL (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:23:11 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:17541 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965261AbVIOEXK (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:23:10 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:22:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: "David S. Miller" cc: dada1@cosmosbay.com, sonny@burdell.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: "Read my lips: no more merges" - aka Linux 2.6.14-rc1 In-Reply-To: <20050914.210640.63539596.davem@davemloft.net> Message-ID: References: <20050913063359.GA29715@kevlar.burdell.org> <43267A00.1010405@cosmosbay.com> <20050914.210640.63539596.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 507 Lines: 16 On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, David S. Miller wrote: > > Why not just remember the lowest available free slot and start each > bitmap search there? This is a quite common technique. Ehh. That's what "files->next_fd" is (well, now it's in the fdt structure). Linus - 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/