From: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] device property: Make modifications of fwnode "flags" thread safe
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:42:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <abkT_jpjIki6pvX1@shikoro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <abkLY4AAQuFlTRC7@ashevche-desk.local>
> > What's the alignment for the u8 member in your SoC? 4 bytes or 8 bytes?
> > (I assume it's 64-bit SoC.)
>
> FWIW, with the given change it will be still inside 64-byte data structure
> which most likely occupies a single cache line (before this patch and after
> as well).
I consider this directon of the discussion irrelevant. If the number is
(maybe? That's to be discussed!) needlessly bigger than 0, then it
doesn't matter how big the number is.
Why don't you like the idea of taking the lock?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-17 8:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-16 22:42 [PATCH] device property: Make modifications of fwnode "flags" thread safe Douglas Anderson
2026-03-17 7:10 ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-03-17 7:26 ` Wolfram Sang
2026-03-17 7:34 ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-03-17 7:42 ` Wolfram Sang
2026-03-17 8:04 ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-03-17 8:05 ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-03-17 8:42 ` Wolfram Sang [this message]
2026-03-17 10:02 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-03-17 10:16 ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-03-17 10:34 ` Wolfram Sang
2026-03-17 10:44 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2026-03-17 14:27 ` Wolfram Sang
2026-03-18 8:41 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2026-03-18 9:06 ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-03-17 13:42 ` Mark Brown
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