>>> (I hope I'm not annoying you by bikeshedding this too much, although I >>> think this is improving.) >> >> [ I don't mind, although I wish other, more critical parts of the kernel got >> this >> much attention as well ;-) ]
That's the problem with small, understandable problems: people *aren't* scared to mess with them. > It's been fun seeing this evolve, but overall, I tend to agree with > Peter: It's a lot of complexity for little gain. If we're not going to > just kill the Vmalloc* fields (which is probably too controversial) > I'd prefer Linus' simpler version. Are you sure you're not being affected by the number of iterations? The final version is not actually a lot of code (although yes, more than Linus's), and offers the advantage of peace of mind: there's not some nasty-smelling code you can't entirely trust left behind. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
