Re: [PATCH 2/2] page table iterators

[Andrew Morton]

Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> My opinion FWIW: I'm all for regularizing the pagetable loops to
>  work the same way, changing their variables to use the same names,
>  improving their efficiency; but I do like to see what a loop is up to.
> 
>  list_for_each and friends are very widely used, they're fine, and I'm
>  quite glad to have their prefetching hidden away from me; but usually
>  I groan, grin and bear it, each time someone devises a clever new
>  for_each macro concealing half the details of some specialist loop.
> 
>  In a minority?

Of two.

Let's see what they look like.  They'd need to be very good, IMO.
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