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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] Remove useless on_each_cpu return value
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:03:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1325854981.2442.25.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1325600353-10895-1-git-send-email-gilad@benyossef.com>

On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 16:19 +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> on_each_cpu() returns as its own return value the return value of 
> smp_call_function(). smp_call_function() in turn returns a hard 
> coded value of zero.
> 
> Some callers to on_each_cpu() waste cycles and bloat code space
> by checking the return value to on_each_cpu(), probably for 
> historical reasons.

hysterical raisins,, yumm! :-)

> This patch set refactors callers to not test on_each_cpu()
> (fixed) return value and then refactors on_each_cpu to
> return void to avoid confusing future users.
> 

Seems sane enough, fwiw:

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-06 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-03 14:19 [RFC PATCH 0/9] Remove useless on_each_cpu return value Gilad Ben-Yossef
2012-01-03 14:19 ` [RFC PATCH 1/9] arm: avoid using on_each_cpu hard coded ret value Gilad Ben-Yossef
2012-01-09  8:28   ` Uwe Kleine-König
2012-01-03 14:19 ` [RFC PATCH 5/9] ppc: " Gilad Ben-Yossef
2012-01-03 14:19 ` [RFC PATCH 8/9] smp: refactor on_each_cpu to void returning func Gilad Ben-Yossef
2012-01-03 14:25 ` [RFC PATCH 0/9] Remove useless on_each_cpu return value Michal Nazarewicz
2012-01-03 16:08   ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2012-01-06 13:03 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-01-08 16:10   ` Gilad Ben-Yossef

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