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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:12:42 +0200 From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com> To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, mingo@...e.hu, Linux/m68k <linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout On Wed, Oct 24 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 23 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > My biggest complaint right now is that a lot of users of the sg *filling* > > > functions were mindlessly converted, so we have code like > > > > > > cryptoloop.c: sg_set_page(&sg_in, in_page); > > > cryptoloop.c: sg_in.offset = in_offs; > > > cryptoloop.c: sg_in.length = sz; > > > > > > which is just really stupid, and we should have a function for that. But > > > worse is code like this: > > > > > > ub.c: sg_set_page(sg, virt_to_page(sc->top_sense)); > > > ub.c: sg->offset = (unsigned long)sc->top_sense & (PAGE_SIZE-1); > > > ub.c: sg->length = UB_SENSE_SIZE; > > > > > > which again was converted "line by line" and we actually *do* have a > > > function to do the above three lines as > > > > > > sg_set_buf(sg, sc->top_sense, UB_SENSE_SIZE); > > > > > > where that *single* line is just tons shorter but more importantly, more > > > readable, than the mess that is a brute-force conversion. > > > > I modified sg_set_page() to take a length and offset argument, and > > As it no longer sets the page only, perhaps it's a good idea to rename > sg_set_page() to sg_set()? sg_set_buf() also sets length and offset, sg_set_page() is just a mirror of that. So I'd prefer to keep the naming. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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