Re: [PATCH] Use extents for recording what swap is allocated.

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Oct 24 2006 - 18:48:03 EST


On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 08:06:36AM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> IIRC, I avoided list.h because I only wanted a singly linked list (it
> never gets traversed backwards). List.h looks to me like all doubly
> linked lists. Do you know if there are any other singly linked list
> implementations I could piggy-back?
>
> That said, since there's normally not that many extents, I could switch
> quite easily and it wouldn't normally waste much memory.

If the overhead doesn't matter for you (and I doubt it does) I'd say just
use list.h. Reusing existing code that doesn't need to be debugged and
is idiomatically readable to everyone is very helpfull.

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