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Date:   Thu, 23 Sep 2021 12:37:43 -0400
From:   Benjamin LaHaise <ben@communityfibre.ca>
To:     Hamza Mahfooz <someguy@effective-light.com>
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        kernel test robot <yujie.liu@intel.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] aio: convert active_reqs into a hashtable
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 09:00:43AM -0400, Hamza Mahfooz wrote:
> Would that not mean that, we would have to keep track of the indices of 
> the
> array that are not being held by an `aio_kiocb`?

Correct.  This is a better solution than the hash table and would mean
that the requests list could likely be replaced by the table.

		-ben
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