The technical review wasn't technical. It was a human roleplaying as a code formatter. The technical content was entirely found in the comment about ABI compatiblity.
I didn't see any discussion about tradeoffs, alternative approaches, or a survey of what other systems do for this kind of functionality, or detailed benchmark results.
The tone was roughly what I'd want people to give me in a code review -- the only problem is that it was trivial, and could have been summarized as "Fix the style, check it with $tool"
> The technical review wasn't technical. [...] The technical content was entirely found in the comment about ABI compatiblity.
That review also had a comment about an implicit limit on the number of objects, which is caused by a limit on the amount of physically contiguous memory the kernel memory allocator can obtain at once, and a comment that the code being reviewed would allow for a large increase of the reference count of a couple of important structures. Both appear to be very technical comments to me.
I didn't see any discussion about tradeoffs, alternative approaches, or a survey of what other systems do for this kind of functionality, or detailed benchmark results.
The tone was roughly what I'd want people to give me in a code review -- the only problem is that it was trivial, and could have been summarized as "Fix the style, check it with $tool"