Re: [parisc-linux] Re: [PATCH] Fix the cpumask rewrite

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> FWIW one of the major uses of bitops currently is e.g. in 
> include/linux/netdevice.h, where bitops are used for atomic selection of 
> code paths, but not spinning:

That's fine. They _are_ defined to be atomic, and as such they are perfect 
for things like that.

		Linus
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