linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] timer: Allocate per-cpu tvec

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Date:	Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:02:20 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linaro Kernel Mailman List <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] timer: Allocate per-cpu tvec_base's statically

On 31 March 2015 at 13:15, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> * Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org> wrote:
>
>> From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>

>> +             if (!boot_done) {
>> +                     boot_done = 1; /* skip the boot cpu */
>
> So it would be a lot more descriptive to name this flag
> 'boot_cpu_skipped'?

Yes.

> Also, I'd put a description about the PER_CPU background into comments
> as well, because it's not obvious at first sight at all what the whole
> (boot_tvec_bases, tvec_bases, __tvec_bases) dance does.

Yeah, so I did that with a one liner in the last patch, but that doesn't
look good enough. I will try to do something better in V2.

Thanks for your reviews.
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