Re: [PATCH 1/3] jump label: add enabled/disabled state to jumplabel key entries

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 09:54 -0500, Jason Baron wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 09:20:09AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 16:27 -0500, Jason Baron wrote:
> > >         struct hlist_head modules;
> > >         unsigned long key;
> > > +       u32 nr_entries : 31,
> > > +              enabled :  1;
> > >  }; 
> > 
> > I still don't see why you do this, why not simply mandate that the key
> > is of type atomic_t* and use *key as enabled state?
> > 
> 
> Because I want to use *key as a pointer directly to 'struct jump_label_entry'.
> In this way jump_label_enable(), jump_label_disable(), become O(1) operations.
> That way we don't need any hashing.

I'm curious, how are you going to get the keys to point to the jump
label structures?

-- Steve


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