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Date:	Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:06:36 -0700
From:	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@...gle.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Shaun Ruffell <sruffell@...ium.com>,
	Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] Free up pf flag PF_KSOFTIRQD

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote:
>
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
>> index abf8440..5d4afe9 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched.c
>> @@ -1984,9 +1984,9 @@ void account_system_vtime(struct task_struct *curr)
>>        * in that case, so as not to confuse scheduler with a special task
>>        * that do not consume any time, but still wants to run.
>>        */
>> -     if (hardirq_count())
>> +     if (in_irq())
>>               per_cpu(cpu_hardirq_time, cpu) += delta;
>
> If cpu is always the current cpu then you can optimize the code:
>
>        this_cpu_add(cpu_hardirq_time, delta)
>
>> -     else if (in_serving_softirq() && !(curr->flags & PF_KSOFTIRQD))
>> +     else if (in_serving_softirq() && !(is_ksoftirqd_context()))
>>               per_cpu(cpu_softirq_time, cpu) += delta;
>
> Same here.
>

Yes. this_cpu_* variants were my learning of the day for today :-).
Will cleanup various per_cpu() and __get_cpu_var() when I refresh this
patchset.

Thanks,
Venki
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