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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: blaisorblade@yahoo.it
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, domen@coderock.org,
	amitg@calsoftinc.com, gud@eth.net
Subject: [uml-devel] Re: [patch 1/1] unified spinlock initialization arch/um/drivers/port_kern.c
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 17:12:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050309171231.H25398@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050309094234.8FC0C6477@zion>; from blaisorblade@yahoo.it on Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:42:33AM +0100

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:42:33AM +0100, blaisorblade@yahoo.it wrote:
> 
> From: <domen@coderock.org>
> Cc: <user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>, <domen@coderock.org>, <amitg@calsoftinc.com>, <gud@eth.net>
> 
> Unify the spinlock initialization as far as possible.

Are you sure this is really the best option in this instance?
Sometimes, static data initialisation is more efficient than
code-based manual initialisation, especially when the memory
is written to anyway.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-09 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-09  9:42 [uml-devel] [patch 1/1] unified spinlock initialization arch/um/drivers/port_kern.c blaisorblade
2005-03-09 17:12 ` Russell King [this message]
2005-03-09 19:52   ` [uml-devel] " Blaisorblade
2005-03-09 22:42     ` Russell King
2005-03-09 22:50       ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]         ` <Pine.LNX.4.61.0503091840210.22633@chaos.analogic.com>
2005-03-10  2:09           ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-03-10  8:12     ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-03-11 19:18       ` Blaisorblade

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