Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757267AbYH3CzP (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:55:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752002AbYH3CzB (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:55:01 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:46175 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751314AbYH3CzA (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:55:00 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:54:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andrew Morton cc: Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@tglx.de Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] select: add a timespec version of the timeout to select/poll In-Reply-To: <20080829191032.077ca1c8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <20080829080549.6906b744@infradead.org> <20080829080630.5e0ea608@infradead.org> <20080829191032.077ca1c8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 523 Lines: 16 On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > It could be that two plain old writes is more efficient. (and it could > be that this is how the compiler implements the memset anyway?) gcc indeed knows about memset(), and will generate just two stores. No worries, Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/