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Date:	Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:31:33 +0100
From:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@...r.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] SLQB slab allocator

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 06:40:10PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 03:59:18PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > 
> > > Mind if i nitpick a bit about minor style issues? Since this is going to 
> > > be the next Linux SLAB allocator we might as well do it perfectly :-)
> > 
> > Well here is an incremental patch which should get most of the issues 
> > you pointed out, most of the sane ones that checkpatch pointed out, and 
> > a few of my own ;)
> 
> here's an incremental one ontop of your incremental patch, enhancing some 
> more issues. I now find the code very readable! :-)

Thanks! I'll go through it and apply it. I'll raise any issues if I
am particularly against them ;)

> ( in case you are wondering about the placement of bit_spinlock.h - that 
>   file needs fixing, just move it to the top of the file and see the build 
>   break. But that's a separate patch.)

Ah, SLQB doesn't use bit spinlocks anyway, so I'll just get rid of that.
I'll see if there are any other obviously unneeded headers too.

Thanks,
Nick

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