linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/9] oom: cleanup has_intersects_mems

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Date:	Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:26:19 +0900 (JST)
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] oom: cleanup has_intersects_mems_allowed()

> On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> 
> > > I disagree that the renaming of the variables is necessary, please simply 
> > > change the while (tsk != start) to use while_each_thread(tsk, start);
> > 
> > This is common naming rule of while_each_thread(). please grep.
> > 
> 
> I disagree, there's no sense in substituting variable names like "tsk" for 
> `p' and removing a very clear and obvious "start" task: it doesn't improve 
> code readability.
> 
> I'm in favor of changing the while (tsk != start) to 
> while_each_thread(tsk, start) which is very trivial to understand and much 
> more readable than while_each_thread(p, tsk).  With the latter, it's not 
> clear whether `p' or "tsk" is the iterator and which is the constant.

Heh, I'm ok this. It isn't big matter at all.




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