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From: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:11:53AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 14:53 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> >  struct zone {
> >         /* Fields commonly accessed by the page allocator */
> > -       unsigned long           pages_min, pages_low, pages_high;
> > +       union {
> > +               struct {
> > +                       unsigned long   pages_min, pages_low, pages_high;
> > +               };
> > +               unsigned long pages_mark[3];
> > +       };
> 
> Why the union?  It's a bit obfuscated for me.  Why not just have a
> couple of these:
> 
> static inline unsigned long zone_pages_min(struct zone *zone)
> {
> 	return zone->pages_mark[ALLOC_WMARK_MIN];
> }
> 
> and s/zone->pages_min/zone_pages_min(zone)/
> 
> ?
> 

Preference of taste really. When I started a conversion to accessors, it
changed something recognised to something new that looked uglier to me.
Only one place cares about the union enough to access is via an array so
why spread it everywhere.

-- 
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab

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