Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754475AbYKGQ5A (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Nov 2008 11:57:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752641AbYKGQ4u (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Nov 2008 11:56:50 -0500 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:57363 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752595AbYKGQ4t (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Nov 2008 11:56:49 -0500 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: References: <20081107003816.9b0f947a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20081107052336.652868737@polymtl.ca> <20081107053349.861709786@polymtl.ca> <20081106220530.5b0e3a96.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <25363.1226056819@redhat.com> <20081107075003.fa93ccf4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> To: Nicolas Pitre Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Andrew Morton , Mathieu Desnoyers , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ralf Baechle , benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, David Miller , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Steven Rostedt , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC patch 08/18] cnt32_to_63 should use smp_rmb() Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:55:59 +0000 Message-ID: <8445.1226076959@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 594 Lines: 20 Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > Well I'm glad it wasn't designed to demonstrate tastefulness. > > Fast tricks aren't always meant to be beautiful. That,s why we have > abstraction layers. And comments. The comment attached to cnt32_to_63() is well written and informative. > I know nothing about mn10300. That's aimed my way. David -- 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/