linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] radix-tree: iterating general cleanup

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Date:	Tue, 7 Feb 2012 11:38:09 -0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...nvz.org>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] radix-tree: iterating general cleanup

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Konstantin Khlebnikov
<khlebnikov@...nvz.org> wrote:
> This patchset implements common radix-tree iteration routine and
> reworks page-cache lookup functions with using it.

So what's the advantage? Both the line counts and the bloat-o-meter
seems to imply this is all just bad.

I assume there is some upside to it, but you really don't make that
obvious, so why should anybody ever waste even a second of time
looking at this?

                  Linus
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