linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] sched/fair: don't push cfs

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Date:   Tue, 11 Jun 2019 11:06:14 -0400
From:   Phil Auld <pauld@...hat.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     bsegall@...gle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Xunlei Pang <xlpang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sched/fair: don't push cfs_bandwith slack timers
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On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 04:24:43PM +0200 Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 10:12:19AM -0400, Phil Auld wrote:
> 
> > That looks reasonable to me. 
> > 
> > Out of curiosity, why not bool? Is sizeof bool architecture dependent?
> 
> Yeah, sizeof(_Bool) is unspecified and depends on ABI. It is mostly 1,
> but there are known cases where it is 4.

Makes sense. Thanks!

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