Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 31 Aug 2019 08:43:44 -0600 | From | Jonathan Corbet <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] doc:lock: remove reference to clever use of read-write lock |
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On Sat, 31 Aug 2019 15:41:16 +0200 Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> wrote:
> several CPU's and you want to use spinlocks you can potentially use > -cheaper versions of the spinlocks. IFF you know that the spinlocks are > +cheaper versions of the spinlocks. If you know that the spinlocks are > never used in interrupt handlers, you can use the non-irq versions::
I suspect that was not actually a typo; "iff" is a way for the mathematically inclined to say "if and only if".
jon
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