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From: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"akpm@osdl.org" <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [0/6] kfifo fixes/improvements
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:29:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1262165390.4153.3.camel@wall-e> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091230020830.GA7049@core.coreip.homeip.net>


> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 08:18:50PM -0500, Vikram Dhillon wrote:
> > IMHO you can process elements rather than bytes, which is a good
> > improvement, but then again its my opinion, if others don't like it
> > then we can always change it :D
> 
> Right, I was not arguing against having a record-oriented interface, I
> was questioning the utility of processing several records at a time.
> Kfifo users that I have seen so far were working in a record-at-a-time
> mode.
> 

Fascinating, i get a lot of comments, but no one is trying the new macro
base implementation. If someone would, this person would see, that is
100% compatible to the current one and absolut easy to use. Please try
it first bevor argue and complain.

Stefani



  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-30  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-27 21:03 [PATCH] [0/6] kfifo fixes/improvements Andi Kleen
2009-12-27 21:03 ` [PATCH] [1/6] kfifo: Use void * pointers for user buffers Andi Kleen
2009-12-27 21:48   ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-27 21:03 ` [PATCH] [2/6] kfifo: Make kfifo_in atomic Andi Kleen
2009-12-27 21:46   ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-27 21:03 ` [PATCH] [3/6] kfifo: Sanitize *_user error handling Andi Kleen
2009-12-27 21:38   ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-27 23:34     ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-28  7:10       ` Stefani Seibold
2010-01-04 22:33   ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-27 21:03 ` [PATCH] [4/6] kfifo: add kfifo_out_peek Andi Kleen
2009-12-27 21:49   ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-27 23:41     ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-28  7:09       ` Stefani Seibold
2010-01-04 21:57       ` Andrew Morton
2010-01-04 22:24         ` Alan Cox
2010-01-04 22:47           ` Stefani Seibold
2010-01-05  0:14             ` Alan Cox
2009-12-27 21:03 ` [PATCH] [5/6] kfifo: Add kfifo_initialized Andi Kleen
2009-12-27 21:53   ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-27 21:03 ` [PATCH] [6/6] kfifo: Document everywhere that size has to be power of two Andi Kleen
2009-12-27 21:50   ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-27 22:14     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-27 22:23       ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-27 23:34       ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-27 21:36 ` [PATCH] [0/6] kfifo fixes/improvements Stefani Seibold
2009-12-27 23:38   ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-28  6:49     ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-28  7:42     ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-28 14:57       ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-28 16:08         ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-28 17:26           ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-28 20:04             ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-28 20:40               ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-29  8:40                 ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-29 22:27                   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-30  1:18                     ` Vikram Dhillon
2009-12-30  2:08                       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-30  9:29                         ` Stefani Seibold [this message]
2009-12-30 10:43                           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-30 10:52                             ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-30 11:07                               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-30 11:32                                 ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-30 17:29                         ` Andy Walls
2009-12-31  7:35                           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-31  8:59                             ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-31  9:33                               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-31 18:03                             ` Andy Walls
2009-12-30 17:15                     ` Andy Walls
2009-12-28  0:12   ` Roland Dreier
2009-12-28  1:41     ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-28  7:06       ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-28 14:56         ` Andi Kleen

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