[uml-devel] Re: [patch 1/1] unified spinlock initialization arch/um/drivers/port_kern.c

[Blaisorblade <bla...@ya...>]

On Wednesday 09 March 2005 18:12, Russell King wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:42:33AM +0100, bla...@ya... wrote:
> > From: <do...@co...>
> > Cc: <use...@li...>, <do...@co...>,
> > <am...@ca...>, <gu...@et...>
> >
> > 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?
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