Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752542AbZL3J36 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:29:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752252AbZL3J36 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:29:58 -0500 Received: from www84.your-server.de ([213.133.104.84]:53811 "EHLO www84.your-server.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751668AbZL3J35 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:29:57 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] [0/6] kfifo fixes/improvements From: Stefani Seibold To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Vikram Dhillon , Andi Kleen , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "akpm@osdl.org" In-Reply-To: <20091230020830.GA7049@core.coreip.homeip.net> References: <20091227233816.GC2399@basil.fritz.box> <1261986136.808.2.camel@wall-e> <20091228145749.GD4994@basil.fritz.box> <1262016510.12656.25.camel@wall-e> <20091228172651.GE4994@basil.fritz.box> <1262030653.15368.37.camel@wall-e> <20091228204003.GH4994@basil.fritz.box> <1262076056.23095.21.camel@wall-e> <64D5262E-28CF-41E8-9425-F8C5DD0A2265@gmail.com> <20091230020830.GA7049@core.coreip.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:29:50 +0100 Message-ID: <1262165390.4153.3.camel@wall-e> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-Sender: stefani@seibold.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 981 Lines: 25 > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 08:18:50PM -0500, Vikram Dhillon wrote: > > IMHO you can process elements rather than bytes, which is a good > > improvement, but then again its my opinion, if others don't like it > > then we can always change it :D > > Right, I was not arguing against having a record-oriented interface, I > was questioning the utility of processing several records at a time. > Kfifo users that I have seen so far were working in a record-at-a-time > mode. > Fascinating, i get a lot of comments, but no one is trying the new macro base implementation. If someone would, this person would see, that is 100% compatible to the current one and absolut easy to use. Please try it first bevor argue and complain. Stefani -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/