[PATCH 1/2] Generalised support for copy-on-write structures shared by threads.
Julian Elischer
julian at freebsd.org
Mon May 4 05:03:57 UTC 2015
On 5/4/15 7:58 AM, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Sun, 3 May 2015, Julian Elischer wrote: td_cowgen is much
> preferable with comment "(k) generation of c.o.w. pointers."
>
>> + u_int td_cowgen; /* (k) generation of c.o.w.
>> pointers. */
>
> But there is a problem with the comment. It doesn't do much more than
> echo the variable name with minor expansions and rearrangements. The
> only useful parts of it are "(k)" and "pointers".
cow is not immediately obvious to everyone.
>
> Bruce
>
>
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