On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 05:12:43PM -0400, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Consecutive calls to printk are non-atomic, which leads to various
> implementations for accumulating strings which can be printed in one call.
> This is a generic string buffer which can also be used for non-printk
> purposes. There is no sb_scanf implementation yet as I haven't identified
> a user for it.
You might want to consider growing the buffer by no less than a small
constant factor like 1.3x. This will keep things that do short concats
in a loop from degrading to O(n^2) performance due to realloc and
memcpy.
> + * No locking is performed, although memory allocation is done with
> + * GFP_ATOMIC to allow it to be called when you're holding a lock.
Should probably just bite the bullet and pass a flag.
> +#define INITIAL_SIZE 32
Too small. That will guarantee that most users end up doing a realloc.
Can we have 128 instead?
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