linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] flexible array implementation v4

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Date:	Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:56:18 -0700
From:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] flexible array implementation v4

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Andrew Morton<akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:26:47 -0700
> Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>>  linux-2.6.git-dave/include/linux/flex_array.h |   46 ++++
>>  linux-2.6.git-dave/lib/Makefile               |    2
>>  linux-2.6.git-dave/lib/flex_array.c           |  269 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> I haven't looked at this lately but I merged it.
>
> As it's obviously non-injurious, we could slip it into 2.6.31 for
> convenience's sake but without any callers that's just runtime bloat.
> So I guess we wait for some additional callers to come along and prove
> its worth.
>

I am considering using this for managing the descriptor ring in a
device driver, but I am concerned with the overhead of the divides.
Would it be acceptable to round the element size to the next
power-of-2 value so we can replace all the divides with shifts?

Thanks,
Dan
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