Re: [PATCH 21/26] tty: Convert tty_struct bitfield to bools

[One Thousand Gnomes]

> Ahh. Thanks for the insight, Alan.
> 
> But set_bit() et. al. will generate an incredible amount of churn;
> what if I split the fields up to prevent false-sharing?

Do you feel lucky ;-)

I'd rather set_bit and friends were used. They exist largely for this
kind of reason and they also have atomic test/set methods which may in
the longer term be very useful.

Yes it is churn can't argue with that.

Alan
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