From: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
To: randy_dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, george@mvista.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix posix_bump_timer args
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 17:40:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42CC79F4.5010605@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050706171756.258d4f33.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
randy_dunlap wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 11:26:31 -0700 Geoff Levand wrote:
>
> | This patch makes posix_bump_timer() consistent with common convention
> | by expecting a pointer to the structure be passed.
> |
> | Please apply.
>
> Does it matter other than for consistency?
>
> E.g., in a large system with thousands of timers, it seems that it
> could (at least theoretically) have a negative impact by using a
> pointer dereference instead of a known fixed address.
> or am I just imagining that?
>
I pulled this out of the HRT patches. In general it was agreed that
the change is for the best.
-Geoff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-07 0:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-06 18:26 [PATCH] Fix posix_bump_timer args Geoff Levand
2005-07-07 0:17 ` randy_dunlap
2005-07-07 0:40 ` Geoff Levand [this message]
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