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From: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
To: randy_dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, george@mvista.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix posix_bump_timer args
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 17:40:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42CC79F4.5010605@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050706171756.258d4f33.rdunlap@xenotime.net>

randy_dunlap wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 11:26:31 -0700 Geoff Levand wrote:
> 
> | This patch makes posix_bump_timer() consistent with common convention 
> | by expecting a pointer to the structure be passed.
> | 
> | Please apply.
> 
> Does it matter other than for consistency?
> 
> E.g., in a large system with thousands of timers, it seems that it
> could (at least theoretically) have a negative impact by using a
> pointer dereference instead of a known fixed address.
> or am I just imagining that?
> 

I pulled this out of the HRT patches.  In general it was agreed that 
the change is for the best.

-Geoff

      reply	other threads:[~2005-07-07  0:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-06 18:26 [PATCH] Fix posix_bump_timer args Geoff Levand
2005-07-07  0:17 ` randy_dunlap
2005-07-07  0:40   ` Geoff Levand [this message]

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