Re: [Patch 5/8] ia64: implement crashkernel=auto

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Aug 24 2009 - 03:44:01 EST



* Amerigo Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>> e) All the 'else' statements are superflous and make it all harder
>> to read.
>>
>> f) 2ULL<<30 should be written as 1ULL<31, to keep things consistent.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> The reason that I kept 2ULL<<30 instead of 1ULL<<31 is that '1<<30' is
> exactly 1G, so 2ULL<<30 can be easily read as 2G. ;)

i have no trouble reading 1ULL<<31 as 2G ;-) OTOH, the logic and
pattern of the comparisons (especially without the comment) looked
odd at first sight, until i noticed this.

Ingo
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