Re: [PATCH] doc:lock: remove reference to clever use of read-write lock

From: Federico Vaga
Date: Thu Sep 05 2019 - 04:21:22 EST


On Saturday, August 31, 2019 4:43:44 PM CEST Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Aug 2019 15:41:16 +0200
>
> Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@xxxxxxxxxx> 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".

Unfortunately this thread focused on this little thing ^_^'

What about the patch itself? Should I send a new one without this fix or you
will apply it as it is?