linux-kernel - Re: [v4 1/1] mm: Adaptive hash table scaling

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Date:   Mon, 22 May 2017 09:41:08 -0400
From:   Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Subject: Re: [v4 1/1] mm: Adaptive hash table scaling

> 
> This is just too ugly to live, really. If we do not need adaptive
> scaling then just make it #if __BITS_PER_LONG around the code. I would
> be fine with this. A big fat warning explaining why this is 64b only
> would be appropriate.
> 

OK, let me prettify it somehow, and I will send a new patch out.

Pasha