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From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
To: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
Cc: root@chaos.analogic.com, Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.21-rc1 pointless IDE noise reduction
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:00:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EA83447.1090808@techsource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030424182756.GA19290@alpha.home.local



Willy Tarreau wrote:

>Hi !
>
>Well, although I usually don't like these endless coding-style threads, why
>don't you simply use this common form ? :
>
>    return !!(foo & MASK);
>
>I found that the compilers like it much and easily emit conditionnal set
>instructions. Eg, on x86, this should be something like :
>
>   testl MASK, foo
>   setnz retcode
>
>  
>
>  
>

That was the first thing I'd suggested.

Let's canonize (in the "add to the canon" sense) this.  :)




  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-24 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-24 15:25 [PATCH] 2.4.21-rc1 pointless IDE noise reduction Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-24 15:59 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-24 16:31   ` Timothy Miller
2003-04-24 16:46     ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-24 17:15       ` Timothy Miller
2003-04-24 18:27         ` Willy Tarreau
2003-04-24 19:00           ` Timothy Miller [this message]
2003-04-25 18:14       ` Bill Davidsen
2003-04-25 18:30         ` Richard B. Johnson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-24 23:25 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-25 15:08 ` Timothy Miller
2003-04-24  9:34 Erik Andersen
2003-04-24 10:28 ` Jens Axboe
2003-04-27 12:21 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-04-27 17:44   ` Erik Andersen

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