Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751720Ab1CQGXm (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Mar 2011 02:23:42 -0400 Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.213.174]:53457 "EHLO mail-yx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751463Ab1CQGXk (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Mar 2011 02:23:40 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=unuymZ0ETcCnxd0CZN+CrfRgtGo+1ih6cWY5bNRjHhmf7df/SlaFwDFFjljvjPH9+h s0Bs+hFV7HxK6tFPV+qQ4SDpJx1vLsX4cJ+bP9AXgGSJbRgPkPkMXD7igNgMmZ4udHTY 549LSrRT+isMqQvyvT9QTh7SltoBgwMwdNHQA= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110316223631.20091.qmail@science.horizon.com> References: <20110316223631.20091.qmail@science.horizon.com> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 08:23:39 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: _fZK1xTIkkLbeYAG6Y3hEVYL6zI Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] mm/slub: Factor out some common code. From: Pekka Enberg To: George Spelvin Cc: rientjes@google.com, herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, mpm@selenic.com, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 614 Lines: 16 Hi George! On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:36 AM, George Spelvin wrote: > Um, can you name a (64-bit) architecture on which 32-bit is more > expensive than 64-bit? I certainly don't but I'd still like to ask you to change it to 'unsigned long'. That's a Linux kernel idiom and we're not going to change the whole kernel. Pekka -- 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/