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Re: passive references



On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 07:10:42PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> The idea is that acquiring a reference puts an entry on a CPU-local
> list, which can be done inside a pserialize read section.

Is there a specific reason why you are using a list for the per-CPU
storage and not just an array? Given the expected short list size, I
wonder if the pointer chasing is really better than just searching a
short array?

Joerg


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