[email protected] wrote on 05/10/2010 10:25:57 AM:
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:09:03AM -0700, David Stevens wrote:
> > Since "datalen" carries the difference and will be negative by that
amount
> > from the original loop, what about just adding something like:
> >
> > }
> > if (headcount)
> > heads[headcount-1].len += datalen;
> > [and really, headcount >0 since datalen > 0, so just:
> >
> > heads[headcount-1].len += datalen;
> >
> > +-DLS
>
> This works too, just does more checks and comparisons.
> I am still surprised that you were unable to reproduce the problem.
>
I'm sure it happened, and probably had a performance
penalty on my systems too, but not as much as yours.
I didn't see any obvious performance difference running
with the patch, though; not sure why. I'll instrument to
see how often it's happening, I think.
But fixed now, good catch!
+-DLS
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