On 08/03/2009 09:42 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 03 August 2009, Stefani Seibold wrote: >> This is a proposal of a new generic kernel FIFO implementation. >> >> The current kernel fifo API is not very widely used, because it has to many >> constrains. Only 13 files in the current 2.6.30 used it. FIFO's are >> like list are a very basic thing and a kfifo API which handles the most use >> case would save a lot of time and memory resources. >> >> I think there are the following reasons why kfifo is not in use. >> >> - There is a need of a spinlock despite you need it or not >> - A fifo can only allocated dynamically >> - There is no support for data records inside a fifo >> - The FIFO size can only a power of two
For iscsi, the only thing we have not liked with the current code is having to have the fifo a power of 2. It has not been that big a deal though. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "open-iscsi" group. To post to this group, send email to open-iscsi@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to open-iscsi+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/open-iscsi -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
