linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] avoid using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code (nr_iowait

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Date:	Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:08:08 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] avoid using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code
 (nr_iowait_cpu)

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:50:29 +0300
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com> wrote:
> > 
> > hmm this part is wrong
> > you pick the current cpu, rather than the one denoted by ts.....
> > 
> 
> Hmm. Thanks, good catch. 
> Well, there is something I'm missing. How can I match given *ts and
> cpu in update_ts_time_stats (except for introducing
> update_ts_time_stats(..., int cpu)) ?


that'd be option one
option two is to add a "cpu" member to struct tick_sched.....

if you go for option one, I'd replace the ts argument with the cpu
argument.....


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