Re: Fix unlock_buffer() to work the same way as bit_unlock()

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Thu Mar 30 2006 - 12:15:02 EST


On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Zoltan Menyhart wrote:

> Form semantical point of view, the forms:
>
> bit_foo(..., mode)
> and
> bit_foo_mode(...)
>
> are equivalent.

Correct but the above form leads to less macro definitions.

> However, I do not think your implementation would be efficient due to
> selecting the ordering mode at run time:

The compiler will select that at compile time. One has the option of also
generating run time seletion by specifying a variable instead of a
constant when callig these functions.

> In addition, we may want to inline these primitives...

Of course.

> A compile-time selection of the appropriate code sequence would help.

They are compile time selected.

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