Re: [PATCH 1/5] bitops: add generic implementation of ext2 atomic bitops by test_and_{set,clear}_bit

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Sunday 10 October 2010 17:07:26 Akinobu Mita wrote:
> Some architectures use spinlock to implement it
> (asm-generic/bitops/ext2-atomic.h). Most other architectures use
> test_and_set_bit() and test_and_clear_bit() as this patch shows.
> 
> Why are there two implementations? test_and_{set,clear}_bit() are more
> costly operations than spinlock for some architectures?

I would guess that is only true on architectures that implement all atomics
using a hashed spinlock like cris, sparc32 or parisc. This way the user
can decide which spinlock to use rather than have the arch code calculate
a hash on the pointer.

This is an ext2 specific micro-optimization that I don't think makes
sense in the generic le bitops code.

	Arnd
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