linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] cputime: remove duplicate code in account_process

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Message-ID: <20190710141500.GQ3402@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Wed, 10 Jul 2019 16:15:00 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@...mail.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] cputime: remove duplicate code in
 account_process_tick

On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 02:01:00PM +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> In funcation account_process_tick, func actually do same things with
> irqtime_account_process_tick, whenever if IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING set or
> if sched_clock_irqtime enabled.
> 
> So it's better to reuse one function for both.

But it's not the exact same.. and you didn't say, not did you say why
that is fine.