From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264246AbUG1VWi (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:22:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264585AbUG1VWi (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:22:38 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:32202 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264246AbUG1VWO (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:22:14 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:25:34 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: ncunningham@linuxmail.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add missing refrigerator support. Message-Id: <20040728142534.3ed84b99.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1090999347.8316.15.camel@laptop.cunninghams> References: <1090999347.8316.15.camel@laptop.cunninghams> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > + if (current->flags & PF_FREEZE) { > + refrigerator(PF_FREEZE); > + continue; > + } This seems excessively verbose. Why not do: if (try_to_freeze()) continue; /* * Comment goes here */ static inline int try_to_freeze(void) { /* I think the compiler propagates likeliness to the inline's caller */ if (unlikely(current->flags & PF_FREEZE)) { refrigerator(PF_FREEZE); return 1; } return 0; }