linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Migration of standard timers

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Message-ID: <20060914143048.GB9898@sgi.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:30:48 -0500
From:	Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@....com>
To:	Jes Sorensen <jes@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...l.org,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Migration of standard timers

Hi Jes,

On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 10:11:39AM -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Hi Dimitri,
> 
> I just took a quick look at your patch, and at least on the surface it
> looks pretty nice to me.
> 
> One minor nit, why choose short for the affinity field in struct
> timer_list, it seems a strange size to pick for something which is
> either 0 or 1. Wouldn't int or char be better?  I don't know if all
> CPUs have 16 bit stores, but they should have 8 and 32 bit.

Yes, you're probably right.  I would have no problem with this being
changed to a 'char'.

> 
> The name 'aff' for affinity might not be good either, since we tend to
> refer to affinity as a mask specifying where it's locked to, maybe
> 'locked' would be better?

A field name of 'locked' would be OK with me.

> 
> All in the nit-picking department though.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jes
> 
> 
> Index: linux/include/linux/timer.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/include/linux/timer.h
> +++ linux/include/linux/timer.h
> @@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ struct timer_list {
>  	unsigned long data;
>  
>  	struct tvec_t_base_s *base;
> +
> +	short aff;
>  };
>  
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