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Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM

From Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM
Date 2017-05-24 16:40 +0200
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On Wed 24-05-17 12:10:13, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
[...]
> So the question is are we willing to do all these changes across
> the tree to achieve common definitions of KB, MB, GB, TB in the
> kernel ? Is it worth ?

I do not think this is worth losing time. Any tree wide change should
have a considerable advantage in the end. These macro helpers do not
sound overly important to care. But that is just my 2c
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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[PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-05-22 13:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-05-22 23:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-05-23 09:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2017-05-23 10:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-05-23 10:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-05-23 13:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-05-24 08:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-05-24 16:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com> - 2017-05-29 13:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-05-29 13:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-05-23 13:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2017-05-23 08:50 +0200

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