From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 05/10] cpuidle: Return nohz hint from cpuidle_select() Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 09:58:37 +0200 Message-ID: <20180406075837.GH4082@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <1736751.LdhZHb50jq@aspire.rjw.lan> <5818594.T4StF86Hkt@aspire.rjw.lan> <20180406024413.GB4400@lerouge> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180406024413.GB4400@lerouge> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux PM , Frederic Weisbecker , Thomas Gleixner , Paul McKenney , Thomas Ilsche , Doug Smythies , Rik van Riel , Aubrey Li , Mike Galbraith , LKML , Len Brown List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 04:44:14AM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > You can move that to tick_sched_do_timer() to avoid code duplication. I expect the reason I didn't was that it didn't have @ts, but that's easily fixable. > Also these constants are very opaque. And even with proper symbols it wouldn't look > right to extend ts->inidle that way. > > Perhaps you should add a field such as ts->got_idle_tick under the boolean fields > after the below patch: > @@ -45,14 +45,17 @@ struct tick_sched { > struct hrtimer sched_timer; > unsigned long check_clocks; > enum tick_nohz_mode nohz_mode; > + > + unsigned int inidle : 1; > + unsigned int tick_stopped : 1; > + unsigned int idle_active : 1; > + unsigned int do_timer_last : 1; That would generate worse code, but yes, the C might be prettier.