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Date:      Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:47:45 +0100
From:      "Antoine Brodin" <antoine@freebsd.org>
To:        ivoras@freebsd.org
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r186252 - head/sys/kern
Message-ID:  <f19c444a0812271347p2aa102aq7cc4c6a40e8ce81b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <9bbcef730812271319g60e190acj4a68ee419edc7277@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <200812171957.mBHJvCO2013765@svn.freebsd.org> <f19c444a0812270942m39d35ba8teb54943a7f76e@mail.gmail.com> <9bbcef730812271319g60e190acj4a68ee419edc7277@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 10:19 PM,  <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 27/12/2008, Antoine Brodin <antoine@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> Modified: head/sys/kern/subr_param.c
>> [snip]
>>> +enum VM_GUEST { VM_GUEST_NO, VM_GUEST_VM, VM_GUEST_XEN };
>>> +
>> [snip]
>>> -               hz = detect_virtual() ? HZ_VM : HZ;
>>> +               hz = vm_guest > VM_GUEST_NO ? HZ_VM : HZ;
>> [snip]
>>
>> Hi Ivan,
>>
>> Could you change VM_GUEST_NO / VM_GUEST_VM / VM_GUEST_XEN to a #define
>> or explicitly initialize them?
>> The magnitude comparison between vm_guest and VM_GUEST_NO looks like
>> gratuitous obfuscation.
>
> I think that the "enum" type is very well defined and its behaviour
> widely known so it is not necessary to break it into #defines. Would
> you be happy if I explicitly initalized the first member of the enum
> to signify its values are important?
>
> enum VM_GUEST { VM_GUEST_NO = 0, VM_GUEST_VM, VM_GUEST_XEN };
>

I would be happy if you initialized explicitly the 3 values.
You use these values as an index in the vm_guest_sysctl_names array
and you compare them in init_param1() so I think it's better to be
explicit.

Cheers,

Antoine



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