From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] WorkStruct: Separate delayable and non-delayable events.
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:30:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10202.1164108653@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611201030400.3692@woody.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> "dwork" just sounds d[w]orky. More importantly, we don't use short-hand
> that isn't obvious, unless there is some industry-standard and old meaning
> to it that everybody understands. "delayed_work" may be more typing, but
> anybody who needs to type things that fast had better slow down anyway to
> _think_.
Okay... "delayed_work" it shall be. Would it make sense to make another
wrapper about the common bit called "immediate_work" and then hide the common
bit entirely?
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-21 11:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-20 14:27 [PATCH 0/4] WorkStruct: Shrink work_struct by two thirds David Howells
2006-11-20 14:27 ` [PATCH 1/4] WorkStruct: Separate delayable and non-delayable events David Howells
2006-11-20 15:35 ` Stefan Richter
2006-11-20 15:43 ` David Howells
2006-11-20 18:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-21 11:30 ` David Howells [this message]
2006-11-20 14:27 ` [PATCH 2/4] WorkStruct: Typedef the work function prototype David Howells
2006-11-20 15:38 ` Stefan Richter
2006-11-20 15:47 ` David Howells
2006-11-20 16:13 ` Stefan Richter
2006-11-21 14:53 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-11-20 14:27 ` [PATCH 3/4] WorkStruct: Merge the pending bit into the wq_data pointer David Howells
2006-11-21 0:34 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-11-20 14:27 ` [PATCH 4/4] WorkStruct: Pass the work_struct pointer instead of context data David Howells
2006-11-20 16:32 ` [PATCH 0/4] WorkStruct: Shrink work_struct by two thirds Trond Myklebust
2006-11-21 10:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-21 11:08 ` David Howells
2006-11-20 19:17 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-21 11:28 ` David Howells
2006-11-21 13:09 ` Jan Engelhardt
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