Re: [PATCH 0/6] md: Fine-tuning for some function implementations

From	Nikola Pajkovsky <npajkovsky@suse.cz>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 0/6] md: Fine-tuning for some function implementations
Date	2017-05-03 09:40 +0200
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NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> writes:

> On Tue, May 02 2017, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
>
>> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
>> Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 16:12:34 +0200
>>
>> Some update suggestions were taken into account
>> from static source code analysis.
>>
>> Markus Elfring (6):
>>   Replace seven seq_printf() calls by seq_putc()
>>   Replace 17 seq_printf() calls by seq_puts()
>
> Why does anyone care whether printf or putc/puts is used?  Really it
> doesn't matter *at* *all*.

It could matter, but this patchset does not state it all. Does not
have any perf tests and so on.

f7a5f132b447 ("proc: faster /proc/*/status")
68ba0326b4e1 ("proc: much faster /proc/vmstat")

> I don't object to the patch but if it would up to me I probably wouldn't
> bother applying it it either.
> Sometimes I just want to "print" something and I don't want to care
> whether it is a constant string or a single-byte constant string, or
> something more general.
> I see these changes as worse than white-space fixes.
>
> NeilBrown
>
>
>>   Adjust four function calls together with a variable assignment
>>   Use seq_puts() in faulty_status()
>>   Adjust six function calls together with a variable assignment in faulty_status()
>>   Add some spaces for better code readability
>>
>>  drivers/md/faulty.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>>  drivers/md/md.c     | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
>>  2 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
>>
>> -- 
>> 2.12.2


-- 
Nikola

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[PATCH 0/6] md: Fine-tuning for some function implementations SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2017-05-02 16:30 +0200
  [PATCH 6/6] md: Add some spaces for better code readability SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2017-05-02 16:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/6] md: Fine-tuning for some function implementations NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> - 2017-05-02 23:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/6] md: Fine-tuning for some function implementations Nikola Pajkovsky <npajkovsky@suse.cz> - 2017-05-03 09:40 +0200

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