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To: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] pseries: avoid excess rtas calls
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Linas Vepstas wrote:
> 
> We don't need to look up the rtas event token once per 
> cpu per second. This avoids some misc string ops and 
> rtas calls and provides some minor performance improvement.

It does not avoid any calls to RTAS.  (rtas_token merely looks up
properties under the /rtas node.)

Otherwise, looks okay.