On Wednesday 09 March 2005 18:12, Russell King wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:42:33AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: <user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > 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.
Agreed, theoretically, but this was done for multiple reasons globally, for 
instance as a preparation to Ingo Molnar's preemption patches. There was 
mention of this on lwn.net about this:

http://lwn.net/Articles/108719/

Ok?
-- 
Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
Linux registered user n. 292729
http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade




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