Re: [PATCH] x86, UV: Support for SGI UV2 hub chip

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue May 10 2011 - 16:39:21 EST



* Jack Steiner <steiner@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> + /*
> + * Our retries may be blocked by all destination
> + * swack resources being consumed, and a timeout
> + * pending. In that case hardware returns the
> + * ERROR that looks like a destination timeout.
> + */
> + if (cycles_2_us(ttime - bcp->send_message) <
> + timeout_us) {
> + bcp->conseccompletes = 0;
> + return FLUSH_RETRY_PLUGGED;
> + }

This code is sick. Symptom: too long lines. Illness: it's too complex.

checkpatch warned you but you applied the wrong cure: you only addressed the
symptom and broke the lines in an ugly way.

You need to pick another cure. One of the many options:

- eliminate many repetitive strings
- reduce indentation by the introduction of helper inlines
- sensible shortening of variable/field/definition names

... applies to this particular case and will solve the problem.

Note that there's other, similar incidents in this patch, please address all of
them.

Thanks,

Ingo
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