Hayes Wang <hayesw...@realtek.com> : > Francois Romieu [mailto:rom...@fr.zoreil.com] > > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2014 6:53 AM > [...] > > test_and_clear_bit (dense) or clear_bit would be more idiomatic. > > Excuse me. Any suggestion? > Should I use clear_bit directly, or something else? > Or, do I have to remove this patch?
The performance explanation leaves me a bit unconvinced. Without any figure one could simply go for the always locked clear_bit because of: 1. the "I'm racy" message that the open-coded test + set sends 2. the extra work needed to avoid 1 (comment, explain, ...). The extra time could thus be used to see what happens when napi is shoehorned in this tasklet machinery. I'd naively expect it to be relevant for efficiency. I won't mind if your agenda is completely different. :o) -- Ueimor -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
