On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 05:21:30PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > >Why can't we just make the list one item longer than the entry count and > >stick a NULL on the end of it like normal people ? > > Certainly seems safer than the current "let's run off the end of the > list if anything bad happens" setup... And I do not think allocating > n+1 scatterlist entries will have much of a negative impact.
It'll mean m-1 scatterlists fit on a slab. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
