From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, wli@holomorphy.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] for_each_zone / for_each_pgdat
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:46:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020416154608.GA2694@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0204161156330.1960-100000@imladris.surriel.com>
On 2002.04.16 Rik van Riel wrote:
>On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
>> On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> > On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Which requires the user to use something like
>> > >
>> > > for_each_zone(zone) {
>> > > ...
>> > > } end_zone;
>
>> Ugh. If we're going to use such ugly things, it would be nice if they were
>> do_zone/while_zone instead of being suggestive of a for loop.
>
>Ummm, it _is_ a for loop.
>
Perhaps a silly change like
for_all_zone -> forall_zone
for_all_page -> forall_page
changes the point of view of some people. Some languages implement a 'forall'
iteration. And looks better...
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-16 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-15 15:49 [PATCH] for_each_zone / for_each_pgdat Rik van Riel
2002-04-15 20:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-15 20:58 ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-15 21:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-15 21:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-15 23:20 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-04-16 0:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-16 1:30 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-04-16 4:27 ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-16 13:36 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-16 13:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-16 16:39 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-04-16 14:00 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-04-16 18:19 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-04-16 4:22 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2002-04-16 14:50 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-04-16 14:56 ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-16 15:26 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-04-16 15:46 ` J.A. Magallon [this message]
2002-04-15 21:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-04-15 21:47 ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-15 22:19 ` Martin J. Bligh
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-12 0:25 Rik van Riel
2002-04-18 9:41 ` Pavel Machek
2002-04-11 18:23 Rik van Riel
2002-04-11 18:54 ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-12 0:07 ` Rik van Riel
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