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SubjectRe: [PATCH] bitops: add _local bitops
On 05/09/2012 04:45 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
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> +Local versions of the bitmask operations are also provided. They are used in
> +contexts where the operations need to be performed atomically with respect to
> +the local CPU, but no other CPU accesses the bitmask. This assumption makes it
> +possible to avoid the need for SMP protection and use less expensive atomic
> +operations in the implementation.
> +They have names similar to the above bitmask operation interfaces,
> +except that _local is sufficed to the interface name.

suffixed (better: appended)

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function



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