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From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Cc: ckrm-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] CKRM: Add limit support for mem controller
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 10:59:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1112723942.19430.77.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050405174239.GD32645@chandralinux.beaverton.ibm.com>

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 10:42 -0700, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 07:10:50AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > "DONTCARE" is also multiplexed.  It means "no guarantee" or "no limit"
> > depending on context.  I don't think it would hurt to have one variable
> > for each of these cases.
> 
> It is agnostic... and the name doesn't suggest one way or other... so, I
> don't see a problem in multiplexing it.

I think that variable names should be as suggestive as possible.  *So*
suggestive that I know what they actually do. :)

> > What does "impl" stand for, anyway?  implied?  implicit? implemented?
> 
> I meant implicit... you can also say implied.... will add in comments to
> the dats structure definition.

How about changing the name of the structure member?  Comments suck.

-- Dave

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-05 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-02  3:13 Chandra Seetharaman
2005-04-04 14:10 ` Dave Hansen
2005-04-05 17:42   ` Chandra Seetharaman
2005-04-05 17:59     ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2005-04-05 18:26       ` Chandra Seetharaman
2005-04-05 19:01         ` [ckrm-tech] " Dave Hansen
2005-04-05 19:48           ` Chandra Seetharaman
     [not found]             ` <1112732985.4200.1973.camel@stark>
2005-04-06 16:48               ` Chandra Seetharaman
2005-04-06 18:35                 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2005-05-19  0:32 Chandra Seetharaman
2005-06-24 22:24 Chandra Seetharaman

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