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SubjectRe: [PATCH 35/35] x86: clean up speedctep-centrino and reduce cpumask_t usage From: Rusty Russell <>

* Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 02:04:44PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thursday 23 October 2008 13:09:01 Mike Travis wrote:
> > > > 1) The #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU seems unnecessary these days.
> > > > 2) The loop can simply skip over offline cpus, rather than creating a tmp
> > > > mask.
> > > > 3) set_mask is set to either a single cpu or all online cpus in a
> > > > policy. Since it's just used for set_cpus_allowed(), any offline cpus in a
> > > > policy don't matter, so we can just use cpumask_of_cpu() or the
> > > > policy->cpus.
> > >
> > > Note that this cleanup stands alone; it's just that I read this code I
> > > couldn't help but tidy it up.
> > >
> > > Ingo: do you just want to put this in your normal tree for sending to
> > > Linus?
> >
> > hm, cpufreq stuff belongs into davej's tree.
> >
> > i skipped #34 and #35 for now, we can live without them, correct?
>
> If those patches are dependant upon the others, I can live with them
> going through another tree. There's nothing pending for
> speedstep-centrino in cpufreq anyway.

ok - although the cleanups Rusty did look independent to me. We can
just keep it in mind for the future, the whole topic is complex enough
already as-is.

Ingo


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