From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx156.postini.com [74.125.245.156]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 033196B0033 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 11:15:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <520A4D5F.6020401@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 08:14:39 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] [PATCH] mm: Save soft-dirty bits on file pages References: <20130730204154.407090410@gmail.com> <20130730204654.966378702@gmail.com> <20130807132812.60ad4bfe85127794094d385e@linux-foundation.org> <20130808145120.GA1775@moon> <20130812145720.3b722b066fe1bd77291331e5@linux-foundation.org> <20130813050213.GA2869@moon> In-Reply-To: <20130813050213.GA2869@moon> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Andy Lutomirski , Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xemul@parallels.com, mpm@selenic.com, xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com, mtosatti@redhat.com, kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, peterz@infradead.org, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner On 08/12/2013 10:02 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > > There is a case when you don't need a mask completely. And because this > pte conversion is on hot path and time critical I kept generated code > as it was (even if that lead to slightly less clear source code). > Does it actually matter, generated-code-wise, or is the compiler smart enough to figure it out? The reason I'm asking is because it makes the code much harder to follow. The other thing is can we please pretty please call it something other than "frob"? -hpa -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org