Re: [RFC -v9 4/4] net, rds, Replace xlist in net/rds/xlist.h with llist

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Thu Dec 23 2010 - 02:06:16 EST


On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:43:23 +0800, Huang Ying said:
> The functionality of xlist and llist is almost same. This patch
> replace xlist with llist to avoid code duplication.

> /*
> - * this takes a list head of mrs and turns it into an xlist of clusters.
> - * each cluster has an xlist of MR_CLUSTER_SIZE mrs that are ready for
> - * reuse.
> + * this takes a list head of mrs and turns it into linked llist nodes.
> */

This comment change loses a lot of information. The original 3 lines
tells me a lot about what the data structure is and what it's used for,
the replacement is a 'b +=5; /* add 5 to b */' type of comment.


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