Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757286AbcJPRLF (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Oct 2016 13:11:05 -0400 Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.4]:52949 "EHLO mout.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753193AbcJPRK4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Oct 2016 13:10:56 -0400 Subject: Re: MD-RAID: Use seq_putc() in three status functions? To: Hannes Reinecke References: <566ABCD9.1060404@users.sourceforge.net> <786843ef-4b6f-eb04-7326-2f6f5b408826@users.sourceforge.net> <92c52f1d-d151-cea6-e9ac-31378e6862d0@users.sourceforge.net> <1475771699.1914.10.camel@perches.com> <77fb6fdc-7480-8607-0af1-42f73c125b9d@users.sourceforge.net> <688764a4-072d-2faf-37ba-a222b190a5d9@suse.de> Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Guoqing Jiang , Jens Axboe , Joe Perches , Mike Christie , Neil Brown , Shaohua Li , Tomasz Majchrzak , LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org From: SF Markus Elfring Message-ID: <59d71170-c48d-a084-c748-b6ab74a2bee4@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 19:10:15 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <688764a4-072d-2faf-37ba-a222b190a5d9@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:U2KS/aEY0Pbw/06dicd8/t+x8kClCxhddXMvNxx6JeRT/Qazqzg JlVTzSGcC1zFpLegjNOYAjRYy6LkZkIlbcf2D5OQUQBGhs0C6X9qS4N8K1w+Z9ebKpi6ZtO qKDYQpW+i7dO7VYZaTqDDpd238+th2HtNFHe8Ml8Ft66EgxnoSh79UJQS/wYfpH9BVbplaw 21Qzxgz2U+djWeLBuAF4A== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:PKraaAJYq3A=:U4wyi/XLSL90RGlDEJsVor AJ+NcDIm1HHyoqGKh+7pqjX3AizsSfVdbgWrK2GXOFnK0Ju7efEgtTFlR+yQIbBxUQG5osawA 4dki49NfGZ7e5h9UvAwgdqvCfeX354IGJPBw8hlv+fjtcSncSgK6fib5hllTN74Y77vR75Blm oZTrk93R4/ZGRI2SmTxnN4QKdXPs3Y4u4ZKf8tL8XLNGnzwMXurABzQNtfYY1z1hvn8LBdJCf aEc3bW2dnrMynXoqyfklfekOjrH1087csHz587MgsCKTqfUBA+k7+3fymbBXpMkDGpVkz9ASq WALUU0Q2DVZZQM4/vEGMlArrddiofc/JoQF96v8DYsaEGi+n06IZoA+jO05FQpOgZdVf2Zk6p MkdRz9IkP9JKw8gBnONiUbFwnVVzmDCoHcPKjK6JWfGwH7fmJj/QslFbViUjHDv7GEjhHZ/y7 57FcvZM9mFD9zATLhMH+Kn/UYshn0qLxDbuk14A9prL49K7V58hs2USotjffYxoNbKHf7R8qB wNWnZmUWoNnpKY88pwJdW1rsicDWw7pprAO04Wr+KGlA3F2RgmtbGR9Wvdewdwa2sjy6y+BVq 1DXeJkmI2W3dMG0V3LBIYrJ7CEztkbGatX0tGCvpaENtApextb5AoiciSw23xoBdAsNhBcrVF eGUq4RgqEsxPOaLKWGd8G+Hhfp4hn/La5vS7wyxyt71J90DWwGHic6dh/wpXWWCkf8Is5sU2E fqhalPRGn+OoWPQv3xNUS8YmOTaqnwLccDFrEx962Indu2OMBo4p8YpQSGh+pcVAvTNgDxGQq Oyuz1wu Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 367 Lines: 12 > Does it improve code? Does it improve anything? Yes. - I got such an impression. * Is it more efficient to call the function "seq_printf" for the desired data processing for a single character than to pass it to the function "" in a string? * Will the required data transfer shrink a bit for the affected functions because of such a change? Regards, Markus