On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> > Well, do_poll() only walks through one element at a time so it can
> > walk through the (say, linked list?) of slab'd pollfd objects one at a
> > time.
>
> If you're feeling really dirty, the slab allocator's free list provides
> objects ready linked ;-)
I thought of that as well. But it won't work because our linked lists are
per sys_poll() invocation. We must build a linked list inside sys_poll()
that other callers know nothing about.
Regards,
Tigran.
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