From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>,
"Geliang Tang" <geliangtang@gmail.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/blkback: use rb_entry()
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 17:07:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161220220720.GS19380@char.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1482270801.1521.25.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com>
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 01:53:21PM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-12-20 at 12:51 -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 05:44:06PM +0000, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 11:47:03AM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:02:19PM +0800, Geliang Tang wrote:
> > > > > To make the code clearer, use rb_entry() instead of container_of() to
> > > > > deal with rbtree.
> > > >
> > > > That is OK but I think 'container_of' is more clear.
> > > >
> > > > Roger, thoughts?
> > >
> > > I think so, container_of is a global macro that's widely used and everyone
> > > knows, rb_entry OTOH it's not and it's use doesn't really simply the code at
> > > all. I'm not really opposed, but it seems kind of a pointless change (not that
> > > it's wrong).
> >
> > <nods> I concur.
> >
> > Geliang Tang,
> >
> > Thank you for the patch but there is no need for it.
>
> The same could be said of list_entry()
>
Sure. And I am used to that as well :-)
> #define hlist_entry(ptr, type, member) container_of(ptr,type,member)
>
> #define list_entry(ptr, type, member) container_of(ptr, type, member)
>
> # git grep -n list_entry | wc -l
> 3636
>
> rb_entry() will probably make its way everywhere.
That is good to know.
But for right now this patch is not necessary. Thank you!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-20 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-20 14:02 [PATCH] dm bufio: use rb_entry() Geliang Tang
2016-12-20 14:02 ` [PATCH] drm/nouveau/dma: " Geliang Tang
2016-12-21 23:22 ` [Nouveau] " Ben Skeggs
2016-12-20 14:02 ` [PATCH] IB/qib: " Geliang Tang
2016-12-20 14:21 ` Leon Romanovsky
2016-12-20 15:01 ` Dennis Dalessandro
2016-12-20 19:34 ` Marciniszyn, Mike
2017-01-12 17:09 ` Doug Ledford
2016-12-20 14:02 ` [PATCH] netfilter: xt_connlimit: " Geliang Tang
2017-01-05 12:26 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-12-20 14:02 ` [PATCH] net/mlx5: " Geliang Tang
2016-12-20 14:19 ` Leon Romanovsky
2016-12-20 19:23 ` David Miller
2016-12-20 14:02 ` [PATCH] net_sched: sch_fq: " Geliang Tang
2016-12-20 16:38 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-12-20 19:23 ` David Miller
2016-12-20 14:02 ` [PATCH] net_sched: sch_netem: " Geliang Tang
2016-12-20 19:23 ` David Miller
2016-12-20 14:02 ` [PATCH] powerpc/perf/24x7: use rb_entry Geliang Tang
2019-07-08 1:19 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-12-20 14:02 ` [PATCH] RDS: use rb_entry() Geliang Tang
2016-12-20 14:20 ` Leon Romanovsky
2016-12-20 16:34 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2016-12-20 19:23 ` David Miller
2016-12-22 3:33 ` Doug Ledford
2016-12-20 14:02 ` [PATCH] xen/blkback: " Geliang Tang
2016-12-20 16:47 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-12-20 17:44 ` Roger Pau Monné
2016-12-20 17:51 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-12-20 21:53 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-12-20 22:07 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2016-12-20 14:02 ` [PATCH] xen/evtchn: " Geliang Tang
2016-12-20 16:20 ` Juergen Gross
2016-12-22 9:07 ` Juergen Gross
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