linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] flexible array implementation

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Message-ID: <1158166a0907210957p6fb73ed7pc7f5bb9f9ad6eac2@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:57:50 +0200
From:	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>
To:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	bblum@...gle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, menage@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] flexible array implementation

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Dave Hansen<dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> +static inline struct flex_array_part *
> +__fa_get_part(struct flex_array *fa, int part_nr, gfp_t flags)
> +{
> +       struct flex_array_part *part = NULL;
> +       if (part_nr > __nr_part_ptrs())
> +               return NULL;
> +       part = fa->parts[part_nr];
> +       if (!part) {
> +               part = kmalloc(FLEX_ARRAY_PART_SIZE, flags);
> +               if (!part)
> +                       return NULL;
> +               fa->parts[part_nr] = part;
> +       }
> +       return part;
> +}

This is far too big to be an inline.

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