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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bitops: add _local bitops
Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 17:17:21 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FAA7C71.3040501@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120509134528.GA18044@redhat.com>

On 05/09/2012 04:45 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>  
> +Local versions of the bitmask operations are also provided.  They are used in
> +contexts where the operations need to be performed atomically with respect to
> +the local CPU, but no other CPU accesses the bitmask.  This assumption makes it
> +possible to avoid the need for SMP protection and use less expensive atomic
> +operations in the implementation.
> +They have names similar to the above bitmask operation interfaces,
> +except that _local is sufficed to the interface name.

suffixed (better: appended)

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-09 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-09 13:45 [PATCH] bitops: add _local bitops Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-05-09 14:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-09 15:06   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-05-09 15:43   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-05-09 15:44     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-09 15:47   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-05-09 16:24     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-09 16:36       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-05-09 16:45         ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-09 16:55           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-05-09 14:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-05-09 14:17 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2012-05-09 19:19 ` Andrew Morton
2012-05-09 19:23   ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-09 20:07   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-05-09 20:10     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-09 20:12       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-05-10  9:26         ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-10 23:02       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-10 17:38 ` Rob Landley

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