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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
	Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>,
	Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export current_is_keventd() for libphy
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:02:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20551.1165428139@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612060951150.3542@woody.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

> test_bit() with a constant number is done very much in C, and very much on 
> purpose. _Exactly_ to allow the compiler to combine these kinds of things.

Ah...  I've read that several times, and each time I've assumed it's referring
to *addr not nr as being constant.

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-06 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-03  5:50 [PATCH] Export current_is_keventd() for libphy Ben Collins
2006-12-03  9:16 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-04 19:17   ` Steve Fox
2006-12-05 18:05     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2006-12-05 17:48   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2006-12-05 18:07     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-05 19:31       ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 18:57     ` Andy Fleming
2006-12-06 12:31       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2006-12-05 20:39     ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 20:59       ` Andy Fleming
2006-12-05 21:26         ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 21:37           ` Roland Dreier
2006-12-05 21:57             ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 23:49               ` Roland Dreier
2006-12-05 23:52               ` Roland Dreier
2006-12-06 15:25               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2006-12-06 15:57                 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-06 17:17                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-06 17:43                     ` David Howells
2006-12-06 17:50                       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-06 18:07                         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-06 17:53                       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-06 17:58                         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-06 18:33                           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-06 18:37                             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-06 18:43                             ` David Howells
2006-12-06 19:02                               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-06 18:02                         ` David Howells [this message]
2006-12-07  1:21                     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-07  6:42                       ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-07  7:49                         ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-07 10:29                           ` David Howells
2006-12-07 10:42                             ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-07 17:05                               ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-07 17:57                                 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-07 18:17                                   ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-08 16:52                                   ` [PATCH] group xtime, xtime_lock, wall_to_monotonic, avenrun, calc_load_count fields together in ktimed Eric Dumazet
2006-12-09  5:46                                     ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-09  6:07                                       ` Randy Dunlap
2006-12-11 20:44                                       ` Eric Dumazet
2006-12-11 22:00                                         ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-13 21:26                                     ` [PATCH] Introduce time_data, a new structure to hold jiffies, xtime, xtime_lock, wall_to_monotonic, calc_load_count and avenrun Eric Dumazet
2006-12-15  5:24                                       ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-15 11:21                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2006-12-15 16:21                                       ` Eric Dumazet
2006-12-07 18:08                                 ` [PATCH] Export current_is_keventd() for libphy Maciej W. Rozycki
2006-12-07 18:59                                 ` Andy Fleming
2006-12-07 16:49                         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-07 17:52                           ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-07 18:01                             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-07 18:16                               ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-07 18:27                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-07 15:28                       ` Maciej W. Rozycki

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