Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] move task_struct allocation to arch | Date | Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:07:55 +0000 | From | David Howells <> |
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Hi Linus,
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> wrote: > As I mentioned before I more like the byte approach, since atomic bit > field handling is quite expensive on most architectures, where a simple > set/clear byte is only one or two instructions, if there is byte > load/store instruction. So I'd really like to see to leave the decision to > the architecture, whether to use bit or byte fields.
Should I move the convenience bit operations back to the arch header, so that the M68K guys can have byte-sized flags (which they can use TAS/TST on)?
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