Re: More on bigger kdev_t

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 10 Oct 1999 21:45:40 +0100 (BST)

> I think you'll find that the pointer code is faster than the current code.
> Each time the pointer is dereferenced is to get something we want.

Most of the time we are getting the minor value of foo and using it as an
index into something. If you were to rewrite the block layer and clean all
the drivers up you might be right. The block cleanup is a post 2.4 item

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