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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com,
	reiserfs-dev@namesys.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cleanup and kernelify shrinker registration (rc5-mm2)
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:18:25 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1175584705.12230.513.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070402230954.27840721.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 23:09 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> hm, well, six-of-one, VI of the other.  We save maybe four kmallocs across
> the entire uptime at the cost of exposing stuff kernel-side which doesn't
> need to be exposed.

This is not about efficiency.  When have I *ever* posted optimization
patches?

This is about clarity.  We have a standard convention for
register/unregister.  And they can't fail.  Either of these would be
sufficient to justify a change.

Too many people doing cool new things in the kernel, not enough
polishing of the crap that's already there 8(

> But I think we need to weed that crappiness out of XFS first.

Sure, I'll apply on top of that patch.

Thanks!
Rusty.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-03  7:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-03  3:44 Rusty Russell
2007-04-03  3:47 ` Rusty Russell
2007-04-03  3:58 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-03  4:45   ` Rusty Russell
2007-04-03  4:57     ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-03  5:44       ` [xfs-masters] " David Chinner
2007-04-03  6:01         ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-03  6:19           ` David Chinner
2007-04-04  0:30             ` Rusty Russell
2007-04-03  5:47       ` Rusty Russell
2007-04-03  6:09         ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-03  7:18           ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2007-04-03 12:37             ` [xfs-masters] " David Chinner
2007-04-03 17:36               ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-04  0:03                 ` David Chinner
2007-04-03  9:57 ` Andi Kleen

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