Re: Adding checkpointing API to Linux kernel

Michael Elizabeth Chastain (mec@shout.net)
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:53:35 -0600


Hi Oliver,

> If these functions register callbacks, we can do away with a fair amount
> of crufty switch code as well.

Oh yeah. The networking code has a lot of this, where dispatch
functions have switches with 40 codes in them just to pass them down to
the next layer. Probably none of this is fast-path code so it's more
an esthetic thing.

Michael

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