linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] hrtimer: Iterate only over active clock-bases

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Date:	Wed, 8 Apr 2015 14:10:06 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Preeti U Murthy <preeti@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] hrtimer: Iterate only over active clock-bases

On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 07:40:53AM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> At several instances we iterate over all possible clock-bases for a
> particular cpu-base. Whereas, we only need to iterate over active bases.
> 
> We already have per cpu-base 'active_bases' field, which is updated on
> addition/removal of hrtimers.
> 
> This patch creates for_each_active_base(), which uses 'active_bases' to
> iterate only over active bases.
> 
> This also updates code which iterates over clock-bases.

This Changelog is very thin on compelling reasons to do this. Not to
mention you did no analysis on the code generated.

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