Re: [RFC PATCH -v3 1/2] lmb: seperate region array from lmb_region struct

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On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:17:49AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On 03/23/2010 06:18 AM, Paul Mundt wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:42:41AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >> also, i'd suggest to shorten region_array_size to region_size (we know it's an 
> >> array), so it would become:
> >>
> >> 	lmb.memory.region	 = lmb_memory_region;
> >> 	lmb.memory.region_size	 = ARRAY_SIZE(lmb_memory_region);
> >>
> > I don't mean to be pedantic, but the LMB code already has a lot of
> > region.size references so region_size looks a bit awkward. All of the
> > accessors in linux/lmb.h use region_nr as the array index, so perhaps
> > nr_regions would be less ambiguous.
> 
> @@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ struct lmb_property {
>  struct lmb_region {
>  	unsigned long cnt;
>  	u64 size;
> -	struct lmb_property region[MAX_LMB_REGIONS+1];
> +	struct lmb_property *region;
> +	unsigned long region_array_size;
>  };
> 
> cnt is number of slots used.
> size is memory size
> 
I'm fully aware of what each of these things are, and I have no idea what
any of that has to do with the point I raised above.

> can we use rgn_sz for region array size?
> 
No.
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