linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 35/35] x86: clean up speedctep-centrino and reduce cpumask_t usage From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>

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Date:	Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:06:22 +1100
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Mike Travis <travis@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 35/35] x86: clean up speedctep-centrino and reduce cpumask_t usage From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>

On Thursday 23 October 2008 23:04:44 Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote:
> > On Thursday 23 October 2008 13:09:01 Mike Travis wrote:
> > > 1) The #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU seems unnecessary these days.
> > > 2) The loop can simply skip over offline cpus, rather than creating a
> > > tmp mask.
> > > 3) set_mask is set to either a single cpu or all online cpus in a
> > > policy. Since it's just used for set_cpus_allowed(), any offline cpus
> > > in a policy don't matter, so we can just use cpumask_of_cpu() or the
> > > policy->cpus.
> >
> > Note that this cleanup stands alone; it's just that I read this code I
> > couldn't help but tidy it up.
> >
> > Ingo: do you just want to put this in your normal tree for sending to
> > Linus?
>
> hm, cpufreq stuff belongs into davej's tree.
>
> i skipped #34 and #35 for now, we can live without them, correct?

Definitely, they were tacked on and don't belong with the others.

Cheers,
Rusty.
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