linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] zsmalloc use zs

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Date:	Thu, 10 May 2012 10:11:27 -0500
From:	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>
CC:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] zsmalloc use zs_handle instead of void *

On 05/10/2012 09:47 AM, Nitin Gupta wrote:

> On 5/10/12 10:02 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>> struct zs {
>>     void *ptr;
>> };
>>
>> And pass that structure around?
>>
> 
> A minor problem is that we store this handle value in a radix tree node.
> If we wrap it as a struct, then we will not be able to store it directly
> in the node -- the node will have to point to a 'struct zs'. This will
> unnecessarily waste sizeof(void *) for every object stored.


I don't think so. You can use the fact that for a struct zs var, &var
and &var->ptr are the same.

For the structure above:

void * zs_to_void(struct zs *p) { return p->ptr; }
struct zs * void_to_zs(void *p) { return (struct zs *)p; }

Right?

--
Seth

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