On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 4:11 PM David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > How about: > > * We use head and tail indices that aren't masked off, except at the > * point of dereference, but rather they're allowed to wrap naturally. > * This means there isn't a dead spot in the buffer, provided the ring > * size is a power of two and <= 2^31. To me "provided" reads like this thing works without a dead spot or with a dead spot, depending on whether the condition is met. I would say: > * This means there isn't a dead spot in the buffer, but the ring > * size has to be a power of two and <= 2^31. Thanks, Ilya