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From: Keir Fraser <keir.xen@gmail.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: ns16550.c's poll_port variable
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 09:25:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CBC95112.324B8%keir.xen@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FA3ACDB0200007800081847@nat28.tlf.novell.com>

On 04/05/2012 09:18, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:

> Hi Keir,
> 
> does this really need to be a per-CPU variable? Can't a timer run only
> once at a time on the entire system (the more that it gets re-armed only
> at the end of the poll function, whereas the variable is consumed at the
> start), and hence the variable can be a simple one? Or else, what
> subtlety am I overlooking?

We set up a timer per initialised uart. There can be more than one (although
granted it is rare).

 -- Keir

> Thanks, Jan
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-04  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-04  8:18 ns16550.c's poll_port variable Jan Beulich
2012-05-04  8:25 ` Keir Fraser [this message]
2012-05-04  9:12   ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-04  9:40     ` Keir Fraser
2012-05-04 11:05       ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-04 12:03         ` Keir Fraser
2012-05-04 12:46           ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-04 13:27             ` Keir Fraser
2012-05-04 13:55               ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-04 13:59                 ` Keir Fraser

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