[openib-general] [PATCH][RFC] kDAPL: remove dat wrapper funct ion dat_ia_query()

Tom Duffy tduffy at sun.com
Thu Jun 9 08:22:11 PDT 2005


On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 11:47 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> It is.  B?ut I think it'll change even more later on - having a pointer
> to the method table in every object is an enormous waste of space, in
> the end the method should probably be only in a hca-level object, and
> all other objects should have public pointers to it.

Can you please explain this a bit more?  A 32 or 64 bit pointer is a
waste of space?  Or are you saying that each provider should just define
a struct and have a global pointer to it?

Thanks,

-tduffy
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