Re: [PATCH] doc:lock: remove reference to clever use of read-write lock

[Federico Vaga]

On Saturday, August 31, 2019 4:43:44 PM CEST Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Aug 2019 15:41:16 +0200
> 
> Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  several CPU's and you want to use spinlocks you can potentially use
> > 
> > -cheaper versions of the spinlocks. IFF you know that the spinlocks are
> > +cheaper versions of the spinlocks. If you know that the spinlocks are
> > 
> >  never used in interrupt handlers, you can use the non-irq versions::
> I suspect that was not actually a typo; "iff" is a way for the
> mathematically inclined to say "if and only if".
> 
> jon

I learned something new today :)

I am not used to the mathematical English jargon. It make sense, but then I 
would replace it with "If and only if": for clarity.


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Federico Vaga