On Monday 03 August 2009 22:58:30 Larry Finger wrote: > Gábor states it the way the Broadcom routine is written. They have the > flags divided into 3 16-bit values - high, middle, and low. The values > are kept in arrays - one set is for the current band and the other is > for both bands. When the routine is entered, the appropriate quantity > is saved in a temporary, then the array value is maskset. Only when > the resulting value changes is the shared memory location updated. The > implication is that shared memory writes are expensive. Is that true? No. I think it has other reasons. -- Greetings, Michael. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
