Re: [patch 2/2]slub: add a type for slab partial list position

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On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Alex,Shi wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 08:57 +0800, Li, Shaohua wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 23:25 +0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > On Tue, 23 Aug 2011, Shaohua Li wrote:
> > >
> > > > Adding slab to partial list head/tail is sensentive to performance.
> > > > So adding a type to document it to avoid we get it wrong.
> > >
> > > I think that if you want to make it more descriptive then using the stats
> > > values (DEACTIVATE_TO_TAIL/HEAD) would avoid having to introduce an
> > > additional enum and it would also avoid the if statement in the stat call.
> > ok, that's better.
> >
> > Subject: slub: explicitly document position of inserting slab to partial list
> >
> > Adding slab to partial list head/tail is sensitive to performance.
> > So explicitly uses DEACTIVATE_TO_TAIL/DEACTIVATE_TO_HEAD to document
> > it to avoid we get it wrong.
>
> Frankly speaking, using DEACTIVATE_TO_TAIL/DEACTIVATE_TO_HEAD in
> slab_alloc, slab_free make code hard to understand. Just adding some
> comments will be more clear and understandable. like the following:
> Do you think so?

Yes, I like that more.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>

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