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From: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
To: dtor_core@ameritech.net
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] IBM HDAPS accelerometer driver, with probing.
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:37:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1125099479.32272.29.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d120d50005082615445557d776@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 17:44 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> Is this function used in a hot path to warrant using "unlikely"? There
> are to many "unlikely" in the code for my taste.

unlikely() can result in better, smaller, faster code.  and it acts as a
nice directive to programmers reading the code.

> input_[un]register_device and del_timer_sync are "long" operations. I
> think a semaphore would be better here.

I was considering moving all locking to a single semaphore, actually.

	Robert Love



  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-26 23:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-26 22:18 [patch] IBM HDAPS accelerometer driver, with probing Robert Love
2005-08-26 22:44 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-08-26 23:37   ` Robert Love [this message]
2005-08-27  5:29     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2005-08-27 14:45       ` Alan Cox
2005-08-26 22:58 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2005-08-26 23:15   ` David S. Miller
2005-08-27  2:34     ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-27  2:49       ` David S. Miller
2005-08-27  4:06       ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2005-08-27  5:34         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2005-08-27  6:12           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-08-27 11:35             ` Alexey Dobriyan
2005-08-27 14:56               ` Andi Kleen

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