Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Mar 2015 09:58:38 +0530 | Subject | Re: [RFC] vmstat: Avoid waking up idle-cpu to service shepherd work | From | Viresh Kumar <> |
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On 27 March 2015 at 17:32, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote: > What's not clear to me is why that thing is allocated at all, AFAICT > something like: > > static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct tvec_base, tvec_bases); > > Should do the right thing and be much simpler.
Does this comment from timers.c answers your query ?
/* * This is for the boot CPU - we use compile-time * static initialisation because per-cpu memory isn't * ready yet and because the memory allocators are not * initialised either. */
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