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Message-Id: <20150112160147.27f5431a4674129690bff073@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Mon, 12 Jan 2015 16:01:47 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gthelen@...gle.com
Subject: Re: +
 mm-memcontrol-default-hierarchy-interface-for-memory-checkpatch-fixes.patch
 added to -mm tree

On Mon, 12 Jan 2015 18:54:38 -0500 Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org> wrote:

> > +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c
> > @@ -5337,7 +5337,7 @@ static int memory_low_show(struct seq_fi
> >  	unsigned long low = ACCESS_ONCE(memcg->low);
> >  
> >  	if (low == 0)
> > -		seq_printf(m, "none\n");
> > +		seq_puts(m, "none\n");
> >  	else
> >  		seq_printf(m, "%llu\n", (u64)low * PAGE_SIZE);
> 
> Hm, is that really an improvement to the code?  With seq_printf() the
> calls in both branches align visually much nicer, IMO.

No, agree that it's visually worse.  But puts() is faster and has a
much smaller cache footprint.
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