Re: [PATCH] [0/6] kfifo fixes/improvements

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:29:50AM +0100, Stefani Seibold wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 08:18:50PM -0500, Vikram Dhillon wrote:
> > > IMHO you can process elements rather than bytes, which is a good
> > > improvement, but then again its my opinion, if others don't like it
> > > then we can always change it :D
> > 
> > Right, I was not arguing against having a record-oriented interface, I
> > was questioning the utility of processing several records at a time.
> > Kfifo users that I have seen so far were working in a record-at-a-time
> > mode.
> > 
> 
> Fascinating, i get a lot of comments, but no one is trying the new macro
> base implementation. If someone would, this person would see, that is
> 100% compatible to the current one and absolut easy to use. Please try
> it first bevor argue and complain.
> 

I do not need to try the new behavior - you explained it quite well.
You changed the old API to allow processing multiple records at a time
and it does not quite work the way you want with Andi's patch. Now the
question is: when working with _records_ does anyone really want to
put/get more than 1 record at a time? My answer would be "no, most users
work with 1 record at a time". Thus your changes to the old API are not
needed.

-- 
Dmitry
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