On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 18:27 -0800, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:

> Another note, here, I've got a much more invasive version of this patch
> which is mostly just a cleanup once we've decided if we're going to
> store extra fields in the seg_info struct. It cleans up do_extracopy to
> just store into those fields directly and makes a bit of that code
> easier to follow, I think. Maybe it's better to save extra_start and
> extra_end in that case (rather than extra_start and an extra_size)? Any
> feedback would be appreciated.

I like this idea. Storing extra_vaddr and extrasz instead would replace
some arithmetic with comparisons which may be better. I don't think
there was a real good reason why we went with start and end.

P.S. This is all post-1.1 stuff I hope? :)

-- 

Steve Fox
IBM Linux Technology Center


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