Re: [PATCH 1/2] tmpfs: Quick token library to allow scalable retrieval of tokens from token jar

[Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>]

Andrew,

I've fixed the issues that you brought up for this patch series. I have
sent out version 2 patches in separate mails.  
I've followed up on one of your comments below to explain why I'm doing
things done differently from your suggestions.

On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 16:08 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > +
> > +struct qtoken {
> > +	long		pool;	/* pool of free tokens */
> > +	long		total;  /* total num of tokens */
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> > +	long		init_cache_sz; /* initial cache size */
> 
> I don't think that it si meaningful for any of these things to have
> negative values, so an unsigned type would be more appropriate.
> 
> Did they really need to be `long'?  Plain old `unsigned' might be more
> efficient, perhaps.

I've changed "pool" and "total" to unsigned long.  However, since tmpfs
uses unsigned long for the free blocks, I have to use unsigned long
instead of unsigned for the token jar to maintain compatibility with
tmpfs.


Thank you for your review.

Regards,
Tim Chen