Re: [PATCHv2 3/6] zsmalloc: fine-grained inuse ratio based fullness grouping

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Wed Mar 01 2023 - 03:55:55 EST


On (23/02/28 14:53), Minchan Kim wrote:
> BTW, I still prefer the enum instead of 10 define.
>
> enum fullness_group {
> ZS_EMPTY,
> ZS_INUSE_RATIO_MIN,
> ZS_INUSE_RATIO_ALMOST_FULL = 7,
> ZS_INUSE_RATIO_MAX = 10,
> ZS_FULL,
> NR_ZS_FULLNESS,
> }

For educational purposes, may I ask what do enums give us? We
always use integers - int:4 in zspage fullness, int for arrays
offsets and we cast to plain integers in get/set stats. So those
enums exist only at declaration point, and plain int otherwise.
What are the benefits over #defines?