Re: [PATCH][2.5] Single linked headed lists for Linux, v3

Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Sat, 28 Sep 2002 15:10:06 +0100


On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 08:00:33AM -0600, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > All of those are utter crap. Older gcc's had some little inlining
> > problems that generated suboptimal code, but that's cured now and I
> > don't thikn it even made a difference for the small list_* functions.
>
> I think if we scale slists to be like lists, we don't need to make the
> difference at all.

twice the size of each entry is a big enough difference. No need to
add ugly code as second criteria.
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