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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>,
	peterz@infradead.org, rmh3093@gmail.com, randy.dunlap@oracle.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] vfs: add/use update_page_accounting
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:23:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090218102314.15a0b0c6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090218140626.GA13362@wotan.suse.de>

On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:06:26 +0100 Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 04:27:02PM +0300, Edward Shishkin wrote:
> >  > > Maybe it makes sense to add comments with warnings
> >  > > in all such places, or create a header file with a static inline
> >  > > function update_page_accounting() ?
> >  > 
> >  > Could just uninline the helper function I guess - if you look, those
> >  > four statements already involve doing a heck of a lot of stuff.
> >  > 
> >  > Try it, see how it looks?
> >  > 
> > 
> > Done.
> > Please, review.
> > 
> > Add/use a helper function update_page_accounting().
> 
> Fine patch, except the name I don't like. account_set_page_dirty, or
> account_page_dirtied, or something to hint it is for accounting
> dirty.

yep, sorry, I didn't think too hard about that for-example.

I'll edit the diffs..

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-18 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-13 11:56 [patch 2/4] vfs: add set_page_dirty_notag Edward Shishkin
2009-02-13 13:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-13 13:57   ` Edward Shishkin
2009-02-13 14:09     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-14 13:11       ` Edward Shishkin
2009-02-14 21:11         ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-16 22:43           ` Edward Shishkin
2009-02-17  9:09             ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-17  9:38               ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-17 10:05                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-17 10:24                   ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-17 10:40                     ` set_page_dirty races (was: Re: [patch 2/4] vfs: add set_page_dirty_notag) Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-17 11:25                       ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-17 11:39                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-17 11:55                           ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-17 12:05                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-17 12:30                               ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-17 22:35             ` [patch 2/4] vfs: add set_page_dirty_notag Andrew Morton
2009-02-18  0:26               ` Edward Shishkin
2009-02-18  0:38                 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-18 13:27                   ` [patch 1/2] vfs: add/use update_page_accounting Edward Shishkin
2009-02-18 14:06                     ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-18 18:23                       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-02-18 13:27                   ` [patch 2/2] vfs: (take 2)add set_page_dirty_notag Edward Shishkin

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