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From: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] core kernel fixes
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:52:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090713145256.GI19087@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0907101206120.3352@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:06:23PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> What am I missing (apart from the fact that all those variables are 
> horribly badly named)?
> 
> Also, the tests make no sense. That's not how you are supposed to check 
> for overlap to begin with.

The tests made sense in my brain when I wrote that function ;-) My code
checked for possible overlap scenarios. I havn't thought about doing it
much much simpler...

> 
> Isn't it easier to test for _not_ overlapping?
> 
> 	/* range1 is fully before range2 */
> 	(end1 <= start2 || 
> 	/* range1 is fully after range2 */
> 	start1 >= end2)

... by checking for non-overlap and negating the result. But now I know
better :-)

	Joerg



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-13 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-10 16:28 [GIT PULL] core kernel fixes Ingo Molnar
2009-07-10 19:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-10 19:31   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-07-10 19:51     ` [PATCH] dma-debug: Fix the overlap() function to be correct and readable Ingo Molnar
2009-07-10 20:07       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-10 20:34         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-07-14 10:15       ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-07-14 10:37         ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-07-14 10:52           ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-07-10 19:52     ` [GIT PULL] core kernel fixes Linus Torvalds
2009-07-10 20:02       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-07-10 20:36     ` [GIT PULL, v2] " Ingo Molnar
2009-07-13 14:52   ` Joerg Roedel [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-04-03 10:45 [GIT PULL] " Ingo Molnar
2015-02-06 18:28 Ingo Molnar
2012-10-23 10:57 Ingo Molnar
2012-08-03 16:31 Ingo Molnar
2012-08-03 16:55 ` Darren Hart
2012-08-03 17:01   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-08-03 17:24     ` Darren Hart
2012-06-15 18:45 Ingo Molnar
2012-01-26 18:05 Ingo Molnar
2011-08-04 20:45 Ingo Molnar
2011-04-02 10:21 Ingo Molnar
2011-03-25 12:52 Ingo Molnar
2011-01-21  2:11 Ingo Molnar
2011-01-15 15:15 Ingo Molnar
2010-10-05 19:12 Ingo Molnar
2010-10-05 20:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-05 21:09   ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-10-05 21:45     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-05 22:05       ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-10-06  2:56         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-06  4:59           ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-10-06 18:20             ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-06 21:27               ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-10-07  8:11                 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-07 17:42                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-09-08 13:04 Ingo Molnar
2010-03-26 14:53 Ingo Molnar
2010-03-13 16:35 Ingo Molnar
2009-12-18 18:52 Ingo Molnar
2009-11-10 17:53 Ingo Molnar
2009-10-23 14:53 Ingo Molnar
2009-10-13 18:29 Ingo Molnar
2009-10-08 19:06 Ingo Molnar
2009-10-08 19:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-08 19:20   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-21 13:13 Ingo Molnar
2009-08-13 18:54 Ingo Molnar
2009-08-09 16:07 Ingo Molnar
2009-08-09 18:41 ` Darren Hart
2009-06-20 17:30 Ingo Molnar
2009-06-20 18:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-20 19:01   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-20 20:27     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-21 17:12     ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-06-21 17:37       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-21 17:57         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-21 19:26           ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-05-18 14:23 Ingo Molnar
2009-05-18 15:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-18 19:20   ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-05-19 20:52     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-19 21:45       ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-05-19 22:20     ` Darren Hart
2009-05-05  9:33 Ingo Molnar
2009-01-30 23:12 [git pull] " Ingo Molnar
2009-01-26 17:24 Ingo Molnar
2009-01-11 14:36 Ingo Molnar
2008-12-04 19:39 Ingo Molnar
2008-11-29 19:36 Ingo Molnar
2008-11-18 14:14 Ingo Molnar
2008-11-07 16:28 Ingo Molnar
2008-10-30 23:29 Ingo Molnar
2008-10-15 12:50 [git pull] core kernel updates for v2.6.28 Ingo Molnar
2008-10-16 22:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-17  6:23   ` [git pull] core kernel fixes Ingo Molnar
2008-08-28 11:44 Ingo Molnar
2008-08-18 18:35 Ingo Molnar
2008-07-24 15:13 Ingo Molnar
2008-06-30 15:32 Ingo Molnar
2008-06-30 17:02 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-06-30 18:20   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-30 18:43     ` Vegard Nossum
2008-06-30 19:46       ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-06-30 19:51         ` Vegard Nossum
2008-06-30 19:54           ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-06-23 19:45 Ingo Molnar
2008-06-19 15:16 Ingo Molnar

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