linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] timer: remove code redundancy while calling get_nohz_timer

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Message-ID: <CAKohponTMm7DqEcM4Y-qsf9Gn9QjaEhfdeCELjPKB8wSbJK1DQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 19 Mar 2014 10:19:16 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Lists linaro-kernel <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] timer: remove code redundancy while calling get_nohz_timer_target()

On 18 March 2014 21:14, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 04:26:07PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>> +     if (pinned || !get_sysctl_timer_migration() || !idle_cpu(cpu))
>> +             return cpu;
>
> Maybe the pinned part should stay a caller detail. Although I don't really mind.

I tried that initially, but in that case the callers would have to call
smp_processor_id() in the else part and so decided to put that as well into this
routine only.

> The patch looks good!

Thanks.
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