Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:52:05 -0700 | From | Stephen Boyd <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 22/38] tick-sched: no need to recheck cpu_online() in can_stop_idle_tick() |
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On 04/14/14 09:23, Viresh Kumar wrote: > We have already checked if 'cpu' is online or not and so don't need to recheck > it. > > Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Hm... doing some git archeology shows fa116ea35ec7 (nohz: no softirq pending warnings for offline cpus, 2008-12-11), where the cpu_online() check was added. Before that commit we already checked cpu_online() similar to how the code is today. Perhaps we need to add a comment here?
> --- > kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c > index 9cbba513..c81b6cf 100644 > --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c > +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c > @@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ static bool can_stop_idle_tick(int cpu, struct tick_sched *ts) > if (need_resched()) > return false; > > - if (unlikely(local_softirq_pending() && cpu_online(cpu))) { > + if (unlikely(local_softirq_pending())) { > static int ratelimit; > > if (ratelimit < 10 &&
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