From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: colpatch@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
mbligh@aracnet.com, akpm@osdl.org, haveblue@us.ibm.com,
hch@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce nodemask_t ADT [0/7]
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 20:19:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040320201954.65e35bb1.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040320111340.GA2045@holomorphy.com>
> This isn't quite dead; physical_balance isn't a local. it's a state
> variable static to io_apic.c and it determines the behavior later after
> boot.
Find by me if folks have their dirty laundry. There are limits to my
powers to set things right.
Sorry to have provoked your length explanation of physical_balance, but
in the version of the kernel that I happened to do my research on,
2.6.3-rc1-mm1, this is _dead_ code. The variable physical_balance is
never read, just written, and only appears on 3 lines total.
Obviously if it is in use in current versions of the kernel, then it's
not dead code anymore (at least not without a more profound
understanding of what's going on, which I make no claims to).
--
I won't rest till it's the best ...
Programmer, Linux Scalability
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.650.933.1373
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-21 4:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-18 23:04 [PATCH] Introduce nodemask_t ADT [0/7] Matthew Dobson
2004-03-18 23:23 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-03-18 23:32 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-03-18 23:37 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-03-18 23:43 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-03-18 23:59 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-03-19 16:20 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-03-19 0:58 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-03-19 1:11 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-03-19 1:34 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-03-19 1:40 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-03-19 1:08 ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-19 0:01 ` Matthew Dobson
2004-03-18 23:58 ` Matthew Dobson
2004-03-19 2:55 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-19 0:59 ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-19 1:19 ` Matthew Dobson
2004-03-19 1:45 ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-19 22:51 ` Matthew Dobson
2004-03-19 23:42 ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-19 1:48 ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-19 1:56 ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-19 23:02 ` Matthew Dobson
2004-03-20 0:59 ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-20 3:18 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-20 6:09 ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-20 9:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-22 23:59 ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-23 2:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-23 1:21 ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-23 2:10 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-23 1:24 ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-20 8:02 ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-20 11:13 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-21 4:19 ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2004-03-21 4:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-21 7:59 ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-23 1:12 ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-23 2:09 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-23 2:39 ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-23 3:13 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-23 3:36 ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-23 3:59 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-23 4:03 ` Paul Jackson
[not found] ` <20040325012457.51f708c7.pj@sgi.com>
[not found] ` <20040325101827.GO791@holomorphy.com>
2004-03-26 22:36 ` Sparc64, cpumask_t and struct arguments (was: [PATCH] Introduce nodemask_t ADT) Paul Jackson
2004-03-26 22:54 ` David S. Miller
2004-03-26 23:18 ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-26 23:29 ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-27 0:08 ` David S. Miller
2004-03-27 0:50 ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-26 23:37 ` Paul Jackson
[not found] <1BeOx-7ax-55@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <1BgGq-DU-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <1BgZN-Vk-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-03-19 2:04 ` [PATCH] Introduce nodemask_t ADT [0/7] Andi Kleen
2004-03-19 2:38 ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-19 23:09 ` Matthew Dobson
2004-03-20 0:47 ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-20 1:14 ` Paul Jackson
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