linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/7] nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stop

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Message-ID: <20110926163231.GD2399@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:32:31 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>,
	Guan Xuetao <gxt@...c.pku.edu.cn>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>,
	Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@...el.com>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling
 seperately from tick stop

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 06:06:47PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 09:02 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > Would your readability concerns be addressed by something like the
> > following?
> > 
> > #define RCU_NO_HZ_LATER 0
> > #define RCU_NO_HZ_NOW   1
> > 
> > Then we would have one of the following:
> > 
> >         tick_nohz_idle_enter(RCU_NO_HZ_LATER);
> >         tick_nohz_idle_enter(RCU_NO_HZ_NOW); 
> 
> That certainly is a lot better, except for the two different ways of
> collating NO HZ in that one line.

So perhaps RCU_NOHZ_LATER and RCU_NOHZ_NOW?

Though currently the Linux kernel drops the underscore for lower-case
"nohz" and keeps it for upper-case "NO_HZ".  Hey, it was that way when
I started messing with it many years ago!  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul

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