From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 19:22:33 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] O(1) MQ scheduler J9 patch for IA64 Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Erich Focht wrote: > > Why is there a global change of current->processor to current->cpu? > > That has knock on effects because #define cpu and references to that > > macro also have to be changed. I don't see any benefit. > > Keith, > I can only guess that Ingo wanted to see the problematic spots when he > compiles. I think there was a discussion on linux-kernel ML but I didn't > follow it, so maybe Ingo can tell us... the current->processor => current->cpu indeed was such a helper, to find places that rely on p->cpu. (it's mostly code that has scheduling relevance.) renaming ->nice to ->__nice had another purpose, eg. in the -K2 patch there is no 'nice' field anymore, ->static_prio is used. Ingo