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From: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>,
	kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org,
	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.Helsinki.FI>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, manfred@colorfullife.com
Subject: [KJ] Re: [PATCH 4/8] Cleanup kmem_cache_create()
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:21:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4370FA9F.6010800@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0511081108340.31060@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Matthew Dobson wrote:
> 
> 
>>>A large object in terms of this patch is a object greater than 4096 bytes 
>>>not an object greater than PAGE_SIZE. I think the absolute size is 
>>>desired.
>>
>>Would you be OK with at least NAMING the constant?  I won't name it
>>PAGE_SIZE (of course), but LARGE_OBJECT_SIZE or something?
> 
> 
> Ask Manfred about this. I think he coded it that way and he usually has 
> good reasons for it.
> 
> Thanks for the cleanup work!

Manfred, any reason not to name this constant in slab.c?  If there's a good
reason not to, I'm perfectly happy to leave it alone. :)

-Matt
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From: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>,
	kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org,
	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.Helsinki.FI>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, manfred@colorfullife.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] Cleanup kmem_cache_create()
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 11:21:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4370FA9F.6010800@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0511081108340.31060@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Matthew Dobson wrote:
> 
> 
>>>A large object in terms of this patch is a object greater than 4096 bytes 
>>>not an object greater than PAGE_SIZE. I think the absolute size is 
>>>desired.
>>
>>Would you be OK with at least NAMING the constant?  I won't name it
>>PAGE_SIZE (of course), but LARGE_OBJECT_SIZE or something?
> 
> 
> Ask Manfred about this. I think he coded it that way and he usually has 
> good reasons for it.
> 
> Thanks for the cleanup work!

Manfred, any reason not to name this constant in slab.c?  If there's a good
reason not to, I'm perfectly happy to leave it alone. :)

-Matt

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-08 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-08  0:45 [KJ] [PATCH 0/8] Cleanup slab.c Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  0:45 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  0:48 ` [KJ] [PATCH 1/8] Apply CodingStyle to mm/slab.c Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  0:48   ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  0:50 ` [KJ] [PATCH 2/8] Use 'nid' in slab.c Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  0:50   ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  7:52   ` [KJ] " Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08  7:52     ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08  8:48     ` [KJ] " Håkon Løvdal
2005-11-08  0:52 ` [KJ] [PATCH 3/8] Fix alloc_percpu()'s args Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  0:52   ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  0:53 ` [KJ] [PATCH 4/8] Cleanup kmem_cache_create() Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  0:53   ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  2:14   ` [KJ] " Roland Dreier
2005-11-08  2:14     ` Roland Dreier
2005-11-08  7:34     ` [KJ] " Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08  7:34       ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08 18:49       ` [KJ] " Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 18:49         ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 18:52     ` [KJ] " Christoph Lameter
2005-11-08 18:52       ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-08 19:04       ` [KJ] " Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 19:04         ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 19:09         ` [KJ] " Christoph Lameter
2005-11-08 19:09           ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-08 19:21           ` Matthew Dobson [this message]
2005-11-08 19:21             ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 19:59             ` [KJ] " Manfred Spraul
2005-11-08 19:59               ` Manfred Spraul
2005-11-08  7:51   ` [KJ] " Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08  7:51     ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08 18:54     ` [KJ] " Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 18:54       ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 15:00   ` [KJ] " Matthew Wilcox
2005-11-08 15:00     ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-11-08 15:11     ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08 15:11       ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08 19:10       ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 19:10         ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  0:55 ` [KJ] [PATCH 5/8] Cleanup cache_reap() Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  0:55   ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  0:57 ` [KJ] [PATCH 6/8] Cleanup slabinfo_write() Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  0:57   ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 10:50   ` [KJ] " Alexey Dobriyan
2005-11-08 10:50     ` Alexey Dobriyan
2005-11-08 18:56     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-08 18:56       ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-08 19:09       ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 19:09         ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  0:58 ` [KJ] [PATCH 7/8] Cleanup set_slab_attr() Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  0:58   ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  9:43   ` [KJ] " walter harms
2005-11-08 18:59   ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  1:00 ` [KJ] [PATCH 8/8] Inline 3 functions Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  1:00   ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  7:39   ` [KJ] " Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08  7:39     ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08 18:59     ` [KJ] " Christoph Lameter
2005-11-08 18:59       ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-08 19:08     ` [KJ] " Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 19:08       ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-10 10:42       ` [KJ] " Adrian Bunk
2005-11-10 10:42         ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-10 17:04         ` [KJ] " Matthew Dobson
2005-11-10 17:04           ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-10 17:38           ` [KJ] " Adrian Bunk
2005-11-10 17:38             ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-10 18:04             ` [KJ] " Oliver Neukum
2005-11-10 18:04               ` Oliver Neukum
2005-11-10 18:20               ` [KJ] " Adrian Bunk
2005-11-10 18:20                 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-10 19:22                 ` [KJ] " Oliver Neukum
2005-11-10 19:22                   ` Oliver Neukum
2005-11-10 20:43                   ` [KJ] " Adrian Bunk
2005-11-10 20:43                     ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-08  7:58 ` [KJ] Re: [PATCH 0/8] Cleanup slab.c Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08  7:58   ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08 18:56   ` [KJ] " Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 18:56     ` Matthew Dobson

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