Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:36:41 +0530 | From | Dipankar Sarma <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] s390 (9/9): no timer interrupts in idle. |
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On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 10:24:23AM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > > > idle_cpu_mask does not really represent CPUs that are conventionally > > called "idle", it represents the ones that have hz timer switched > > off (in your patch). So, why not just call it nohz_cpu_mask ? > > RCU doesn't need an idle cpu mask, it has its own mechanism > > for detecting idle cpus, it just needs to know about the ones > > that have hz timers switched off. If you call it nohz_cpu_mask, > > then it would make sense to say that for systems which do not > > switch off hz timer, nohz_cpu_mask will always be CPU_MASK_NONE. > > Ok, I don't really mind the name change. It's nohz_cpu_mask then.
Thanks. Sorry about the name nitpick, I too didn't think about this when Jan had first sent me the patch.
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