Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:01:52 +0000
From: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
       Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
       KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
       Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>,
       Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>,
       Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/35] Use a pre-calculated value for num_online_nodes()
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On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:58:02PM -0400, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Mel Gorman wrote:
> 
> > Naming has never been great, but in this case the static value is a
> > direct replacement of num_online_nodes(). I think having a
> > similarly-named-but-still-different name obscures more than it helps.
> 
> Creates a weird new name. Please use nr_online_nodes. Its useful elsewhere
> too.
> 

Ok, I'm dropping this patch for the first pass altogether and will deal
with it later.

-- 
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab
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