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Date:      Mon, 04 May 2015 13:03:44 +0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH 1/2] Generalised support for copy-on-write structures shared by threads.
Message-ID:  <5546FDB0.30309@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20150504094742.C3339@besplex.bde.org>
References:  <1430188443-19413-1-git-send-email-mjguzik@gmail.com> <1430188443-19413-2-git-send-email-mjguzik@gmail.com> <20150428181802.F1119@besplex.bde.org> <20150501165633.GA7112@dft-labs.eu> <55461CC3.2020306@freebsd.org> <20150504094742.C3339@besplex.bde.org>

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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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