linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/9 UPDATED-1] x86: Initialize 32bit logical apicid mapping early during boot

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Date:	Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:39:49 +0100
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	hpa@...or.com, x86@...nel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	yinghai@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9 UPDATED-1] x86: Initialize 32bit logical apicid mapping
 early during boot

Hey, Ingo.

On 11/18/2010 09:30 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> This patch is still _WAY_ too large.

Really?  Alright, I'll split it further.

> Also, these:
> 
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
>> +#endif
> 
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
>> +#endif
> 
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
>> +#endif
> 
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
>> +#endif
> 
> Are rather ugly.

Yeah, what they do is ugly.  It gets less uglier after the patchset.
I'll see if some of them can be dropped but I don't think putting them
inside ifdef'd inline functions necessarily improves things.  It often
just makes things more difficult to follow.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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