[openib-general] [PATCH] SDP: use linux/list.h for binds

Libor Michalek libor at topspin.com
Tue Jul 19 16:03:45 PDT 2005


On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 11:34:06AM -0700, Tom Duffy wrote:
> This patch replaces the null terminated linked list for connections
> bound to a port and instead uses the list.h library from core Linux.
> 
> I have tested this on a few machines doing several ttcp's at once, but
> please inspect to verify correctness.

  Thanks. I've applied the patch since it's better then what was there.
However, the longer term solution needs to use a full hash table, the 
linear list is problematic when there are a lot of connections, and each
port_get() needs to traverse the entire list to check for collisions.

-Libor



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