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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] radix-tree: introduce bit-optimized iterator
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:18:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120314231826.3938e451.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F618347.8080400@openvz.org>

On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:51:03 +0400 Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> wrote:

> > When a c programmer sees a variable called "i", he solidly expects it
> > to have type "int".  Please choose a better name for this guy!
> > Perferably something which helps the reader understand what the
> > variable's role is.
> 
> =) Ok, I can make it "int"

This should be an unsigned type - negative values are meaningless here.

And "i" is simply a poor identifier.  A good identifier is one which
communicates the variable's role.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-15  6:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-10 19:25 [PATCH v2 0/3] radix-tree: general iterator Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-02-10 19:25 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] radix-tree: introduce bit-optimized iterator Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-03-15  0:43   ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-15  5:51     ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-03-15  6:18       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-03-19  5:19   ` [PATCH v3] " Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-03-19 23:42     ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-20  5:28       ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-02-10 19:25 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] radix-tree: rewrite gang lookup with using iterator Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-02-10 19:25 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] radix-tree: use iterators in find_get_pages* functions Konstantin Khlebnikov

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