linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/8] mm/slub: Factor out some common code.

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Date:	Thu, 17 Mar 2011 08:23:39 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com>
Cc:	rientjes@...gle.com, herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, mpm@...enic.com,
	penberg@...helsinki.fi
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] mm/slub: Factor out some common code.

Hi George!

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:36 AM, George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com> wrote:
> Um, can you name a (64-bit) architecture on which 32-bit is more
> expensive than 64-bit?

I certainly don't but I'd still like to ask you to change it to
'unsigned long'. That's a Linux kernel idiom and we're not going to
change the whole kernel.

                        Pekka
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