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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bitops: add _local bitops
Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 17:17:21 +0300
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Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
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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)

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