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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Migration of standard timers
Hi Jes,

On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 10:11:39AM -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Hi Dimitri,
>
> I just took a quick look at your patch, and at least on the surface it
> looks pretty nice to me.
>
> One minor nit, why choose short for the affinity field in struct
> timer_list, it seems a strange size to pick for something which is
> either 0 or 1. Wouldn't int or char be better? I don't know if all
> CPUs have 16 bit stores, but they should have 8 and 32 bit.

Yes, you're probably right. I would have no problem with this being
changed to a 'char'.

>
> The name 'aff' for affinity might not be good either, since we tend to
> refer to affinity as a mask specifying where it's locked to, maybe
> 'locked' would be better?

A field name of 'locked' would be OK with me.

>
> All in the nit-picking department though.
>
> Cheers,
> Jes
>
>
> Index: linux/include/linux/timer.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/include/linux/timer.h
> +++ linux/include/linux/timer.h
> @@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ struct timer_list {
> unsigned long data;
>
> struct tvec_t_base_s *base;
> +
> + short aff;
> };
>
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