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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Lockdep false positive in sysfs
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 14:55:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120507215518.GN19417@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1205071740420.23176-100000@netrider.rowland.org>

On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 05:51:52PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> I guess in the end it's a question of balance.  Which has more 
> overhead, adding a few function calls here and there, or adding a new 
> flags field to every struct attribute?

Yes, and there are different types of overheads.  I'm happy to trade
some runtime memory overhead under debugging mode for lower code
complexity.  Lock proving is pretty expensive anyway.  I don't think
there's much point in trying to optimize some bytes from struct
attributes.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-07 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-25 18:58 Lockdep false positive in sysfs Alan Stern
2012-04-25 21:59 ` Tejun Heo
2012-04-26  8:16   ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-04-26 18:14     ` Alan Stern
2012-04-26 22:17       ` Tejun Heo
2012-04-27 15:57         ` Alan Stern
2012-04-27 16:09           ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-03 21:30             ` Alan Stern
2012-05-04 16:52               ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-04 19:08                 ` Alan Stern
2012-05-07 19:46                   ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-07 21:51                     ` Alan Stern
2012-05-07 21:55                       ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2012-05-08 18:53                         ` Alan Stern
2012-05-09 17:41                           ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-09 17:47                             ` Alan Stern
2012-05-09 17:48                               ` Tejun Heo
2012-04-27 16:27           ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-04-27 18:27             ` Alan Stern
2012-04-27 20:17               ` Tejun Heo
2012-04-27 21:09                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-04-27 21:16                   ` Tejun Heo
2012-04-29  2:00                   ` Alan Stern
2012-04-29  2:35                     ` Eric W. Biederman

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