Convert i_next field in struct inode to a LIST

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Sun Apr 10 05:42:35 PDT 2005


On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:47:19PM -0400, Dheeraj Reddy wrote:
> 
> This suggestion would need list traversal twice.

Why twice? The worst case can be avoided by keeping the prevision
element. Simon had a macro for that which can be a bit cleaned
(to include the previous == NULL aka head case), but is otherwise
fine.

Joerg





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