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SubjectRe: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout
On Tue, Oct 23 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> My biggest complaint right now is that a lot of users of the sg *filling*
> functions were mindlessly converted, so we have code like
>
> cryptoloop.c: sg_set_page(&sg_in, in_page);
> cryptoloop.c: sg_in.offset = in_offs;
> cryptoloop.c: sg_in.length = sz;
>
> which is just really stupid, and we should have a function for that. But
> worse is code like this:
>
> ub.c: sg_set_page(sg, virt_to_page(sc->top_sense));
> ub.c: sg->offset = (unsigned long)sc->top_sense & (PAGE_SIZE-1);
> ub.c: sg->length = UB_SENSE_SIZE;
>
> which again was converted "line by line" and we actually *do* have a
> function to do the above three lines as
>
> sg_set_buf(sg, sc->top_sense, UB_SENSE_SIZE);
>
> where that *single* line is just tons shorter but more importantly, more
> readable, than the mess that is a brute-force conversion.

I modified sg_set_page() to take a length and offset argument, and
converted these silly sg_set_page(.., virt_to_page(foo)) to just use
sg_set_buf() instead:

30 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 152 deletions(-)

and it's definitely a win. Added to the pending bits...

--
Jens Axboe

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