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From: arnd@arndb•de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 01/11] dma: amba-pl08x: Use bitmap to pass variant specific quirks
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:33:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201306181533.46905.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdbt4fAdnDKuP8bVpwrWoJ-oGNuSbiDZDz5J12ix2qijfQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tuesday 18 June 2013, Linus Walleij wrote:
> I thought about it yesterday and it basically looks to me that
> it tries to outsmart the compiler on how to stuff the flags to save
> struct space on the heap and hint that they can be determined
> quickly by a & operation, this is like premature optimization.
> 
> So please go back to the old system.

Note that a 'bool' is typically stored as a 32-bit field, so there
would be some space saving if there are a lot of flags.

I agree with the conclusion though, the previous state was more
readable, which outweighs any benefits.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-18 13:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-16 20:54 [RFC PATCH 00/11] ARM: s3c64xx: Let amba-pl08x driver handle DMA Tomasz Figa
2013-06-16 20:54 ` [RFC PATCH 01/11] dma: amba-pl08x: Use bitmap to pass variant specific quirks Tomasz Figa
2013-06-17 13:25   ` Linus Walleij
2013-06-17 18:48   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-06-17 18:56     ` Tomasz Figa
2013-06-18  7:47       ` Linus Walleij
2013-06-18 13:33         ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2013-06-16 20:54 ` [RFC PATCH 02/11] dma: amba-pl08x: Refactor pl08x_getbytes_chan() to lower indentation Tomasz Figa
2013-06-17 13:29   ` Linus Walleij
2013-06-16 20:54 ` [RFC PATCH 03/11] dma: amba-pl08x: Add support for different offset of CONFIG register Tomasz Figa
2013-06-17 13:31   ` Linus Walleij
2013-06-17 18:52   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-06-17 19:02     ` Tomasz Figa
2013-06-16 20:54 ` [RFC PATCH 04/11] dma: amba-pl08x: Add support for PL080S variant Tomasz Figa
2013-06-17 13:39   ` Linus Walleij
2013-06-17 18:22     ` Tomasz Figa
2013-06-16 20:54 ` [RFC PATCH 05/11] dma: amba-pl08x: Add support for different maximum transfer size Tomasz Figa
2013-06-17 13:42   ` Linus Walleij
2013-06-17 18:27     ` Tomasz Figa
2013-06-16 20:54 ` [RFC PATCH 06/11] dma: amba-pl08x: Keep LLIs aligned to 4-word boundary Tomasz Figa
2013-06-17 13:51   ` Linus Walleij
2013-06-17 18:28     ` Tomasz Figa
2013-06-17 19:01     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-06-16 20:54 ` [RFC PATCH 07/11] dmaengine: PL08x: Fix reading the byte count in cctl Tomasz Figa
2013-06-17 13:53   ` Linus Walleij
2013-06-17 18:32     ` Tomasz Figa
2013-06-17 19:03     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-06-16 20:54 ` [RFC PATCH 08/11] dmaengine: PL08x: Add cyclic transfer support Tomasz Figa
2013-06-17 13:57   ` Linus Walleij
2013-06-17 18:52     ` Tomasz Figa
2013-06-17 18:56   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-06-16 20:54 ` [RFC PATCH 09/11] spi: s3c64xx: Do not require legacy DMA API in case of S3C64XX Tomasz Figa
2013-06-17 13:59   ` Linus Walleij
2013-06-17 16:06     ` Mark Brown
2013-06-17 19:36       ` Tomasz Figa
2013-06-16 20:54 ` [RFC PATCH 10/11] ASoC: samsung: " Tomasz Figa
2013-06-17 14:01   ` Linus Walleij
2013-06-16 20:54 ` [RFC PATCH 11/11] ARM: s3c64xx: Add support for DMA using generic amba-pl08x driver Tomasz Figa
2013-06-17 14:04   ` Linus Walleij
2013-06-19 18:23     ` Tomasz Figa
2013-06-19 19:50       ` Linus Walleij
2013-06-17 14:06 ` [RFC PATCH 00/11] ARM: s3c64xx: Let amba-pl08x driver handle DMA Linus Walleij
2013-06-17 19:38   ` Tomasz Figa
2013-06-19 17:40 ` Mark Brown
2013-06-19 18:26   ` Tomasz Figa
2013-06-19 19:01     ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-06-19 19:24       ` Mark Brown
2013-06-19 19:22     ` Mark Brown
2013-06-19 19:32       ` Tomasz Figa
2013-06-19 22:48         ` Mark Brown
2013-06-20  9:24       ` Phil Carmody
2013-06-20 10:35         ` Mark Brown
2013-06-20 11:14           ` Phil Carmody
2013-06-21  9:47             ` Mark Brown

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