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SubjectRe: staging: r8188eu: how to handle nested mutex under spinlock
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Hi David,

On 4/4/22 11:50, David Laight wrote:
>>
>> > while (pwrpriv->bInSuspend &&
>>
>> I've looked into what gcc11 produced from this function and looks like
>> my compiler is smart enough to not cache that value, but I am afraid not
>> all compilers are that smart.
>
> The compiler can't cache the value because of the function call.
>

Hm, I am a newbie in compilers, so can you, please, explain (or give a
link to any resource where I can read about it) how function call here
prevent caching.

IIUC compiler generates code that works well in scope of single-threaded
application, so why can't compiler cache that value instead of accessing
memory on each iteration... Isn't register access a way faster than even
cache hit?


Thanks!

With regards,
Pavel Skripkin
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