From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] cpumask: convert kernel time functions
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:59:52 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812202159.52690.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081219160145.144162000@polaris-admin.engr.sgi.com>
On Saturday 20 December 2008 02:31:47 Mike Travis wrote:
> Impact: Reduce stack usage, use new cpumask API.
>
> Convert kernel/time functions to use struct cpumask *.
>
> Note the ugly bitmap declarations in tick-broadcast.c. These should
> be cpumask_var_t, but there was no obvious initialization function to
> put the alloc_cpumask_var() calls in. This was safe.
I still would like see those bitmaps turned into real cpumask_var_t. It
should be easy for someone who knows the code well, or has time to spend
making sure the initialization is early enough.
Cheers,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-20 11:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-19 16:01 [PATCH 0/8] x86 cpumask: more cpumask updates to core kernel routines Mike Travis
2008-12-19 16:01 ` [PATCH 1/8] cpumask: convert kernel/compat.c Mike Travis
2008-12-19 16:01 ` [PATCH 2/8] cpumask: convert kernel/workqueue.c Mike Travis
2008-12-19 16:01 ` [PATCH 3/8] cpumask: convert kernel time functions Mike Travis
2008-12-20 11:29 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2008-12-19 16:01 ` [PATCH 4/8] cpumask: convert kernel trace functions Mike Travis
2008-12-19 16:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-12-19 16:54 ` Mike Travis
2008-12-19 17:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-12-20 1:41 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-12-20 11:22 ` Rusty Russell
2008-12-19 16:01 ` [PATCH 5/8] cpumask: convert rest of files in kernel/ Mike Travis
2008-12-20 1:33 ` Lai Jiangshan
2008-12-20 13:02 ` Rusty Russell
2008-12-19 16:01 ` [PATCH 6/8] cpumask: convert kernel mm functions Mike Travis
2008-12-19 18:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-12-19 16:01 ` [PATCH 7/8] cpumask: convert misc driver functions Mike Travis
2008-12-20 23:22 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-12-29 2:28 ` Rusty Russell
2008-12-29 15:37 ` Dean Nelson
2008-12-19 16:01 ` [PATCH 8/8] cpumask: convert other misc kernel functions Mike Travis
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