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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
To: Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Introduce "struct wait_info" to simplify wait_task*() pathes
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What's the benefit of this?  Those parameters are probably happily in
registers and compiled well, I would guess.  Adding more memory copying
does not seem like a benefit.  Have you verified that your change reduces
code size or something like that?


Thanks,
Roland