Re: [PATCH 1/5] slab: rename obj_reallen to obj_size

[Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>]

Pekka Enberg wrote:

> user_offset is more readable.
>
>  
Ok.

> > +	int			user_size;
> >    
>
>  
>
> > #endif
> > };
> > -static int obj_dbghead(kmem_cache_t *cachep)
> > +static int obj_user_off(kmem_cache_t *cachep)
> >    
>
> So why not call the above obj_offset() ?
>
>  
It would just cause confusion: The name of the function and the name of 
the member must be identical.
The purpose of obj_user_off() is to hide an optimization: 
cachep->user_off is always 0 when debugging is disabled. Therefore the 
member doesn't even exist with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=n, and all accesses are 
hardcoded to 0.
This is achieved by using obj_user_off(cachep) instead of 
cachep->user_off. If the name of the helper and the name of the struct 
member differ, then noone would understand the code.
I'll do a new patch with user_offset instead of user_off, ok?

--
   Manfred
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