Messages in this thread | | | From | Federico Vaga <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] doc:lock: remove reference to clever use of read-write lock | Date | Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:21:16 +0200 |
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On Saturday, August 31, 2019 4:43:44 PM CEST Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Sat, 31 Aug 2019 15:41:16 +0200 > > Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> wrote: > > several CPU's and you want to use spinlocks you can potentially use > > > > -cheaper versions of the spinlocks. IFF you know that the spinlocks are > > +cheaper versions of the spinlocks. If you know that the spinlocks are > > > > never used in interrupt handlers, you can use the non-irq versions:: > I suspect that was not actually a typo; "iff" is a way for the > mathematically inclined to say "if and only if".
Unfortunately this thread focused on this little thing ^_^'
What about the patch itself? Should I send a new one without this fix or you will apply it as it is?
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