Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Feb 2002 01:01:50 +0100 | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: thread_info implementation |
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Hi,
I wrote:
> 1. I more liked the previous byte fields instead of the bitmasks. > bitfield/bitmask instructions are at least 2 bytes longer than a simple > test instruction for m68k.
Additional note: The currently used bitfield instruction can be quite expensive, where all we need is an atomic read and write, but not an atomic test/modify.
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