From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
To: yuankuiz@codeaurora.org
Cc: Linux PM <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
aulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] time: tick-sched: use bool for tick_stopped
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 10:00:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJZ5v0h=Jeb5JjjE9vNQM29xYAy-Ogmx1mycRv-hPJ1+m=edzw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <891d4f632fbff5052e11f2d0b6fac35d@codeaurora.org>
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 9:33 AM, <yuankuiz@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> From: John Zhao <yuankuiz@codeaurora.org>
>
> Variable tick_stopped returned by tick_nohz_tick_stopped
> can have only true / forse values. Since the return type
> of the tick_nohz_tick_stopped is also bool, variable
> tick_stopped nice to have data type as bool in place of int.
> Moreover, the executed instructions cost could be minimal
> without potiential data type conversion.
>
> Signed-off-by: John Zhao <yuankuiz@codeaurora.org>
> ---
> kernel/time/tick-sched.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.h b/kernel/time/tick-sched.h
> index 6de959a..4d34309 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.h
> +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.h
> @@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ struct tick_sched {
> unsigned long check_clocks;
> enum tick_nohz_mode nohz_mode;
>
> + bool tick_stopped : 1;
> unsigned int inidle : 1;
> - unsigned int tick_stopped : 1;
> unsigned int idle_active : 1;
> unsigned int do_timer_last : 1;
> unsigned int got_idle_tick : 1;
I don't think this is a good idea at all.
Please see https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/21/384 for example.
Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-10 8:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-10 7:33 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] time: tick-sched: use bool for tick_stopped yuankuiz
2018-04-10 7:45 ` yuankuiz
2018-04-10 8:51 ` yuankuiz
2018-04-10 8:54 ` yuankuiz
2018-04-10 7:55 ` Subject: [PATCH] " Thomas Gleixner
2018-04-10 8:12 ` yuankuiz
2018-04-10 8:00 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2018-04-10 8:15 ` yuankuiz
2018-04-10 9:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-04-10 10:07 ` yuankuiz
2018-04-10 11:06 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-04-10 14:08 ` yuankuiz
2018-04-10 14:49 ` yuankuiz
2018-04-10 23:09 ` yuankuiz
2018-04-10 23:20 ` yuankuiz
2018-04-20 1:47 ` yuankuiz
2018-04-20 6:44 ` yuankuiz
2018-04-20 19:24 ` Joe Perches
2018-04-25 7:01 ` yuankuiz
2018-04-10 11:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-04-10 12:07 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-04-10 12:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-04-10 12:33 ` Subject: [PATCH] " Peter Zijlstra
2018-04-10 15:14 ` Joe Perches
2018-04-10 16:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-04-10 15:41 ` [PATCH] checkpatch: whinge about bool bitfields Joe Perches
2018-04-10 18:19 ` [PATCH] checkpatch: Add a --strict test for structs with bool member definitions Joe Perches
2018-04-10 21:39 ` Andrew Morton
2018-04-10 21:53 ` Joe Perches
2018-04-10 22:00 ` Andrew Morton
2018-04-11 8:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-04-11 16:29 ` Andrew Morton
2018-04-11 16:51 ` Joe Perches
2018-04-12 6:22 ` Julia Lawall
2018-04-12 6:42 ` Joe Perches
2018-04-12 7:03 ` Julia Lawall
2018-04-12 8:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-04-14 21:19 ` Julia Lawall
2018-04-17 9:07 ` yuankuiz
2018-04-18 18:38 ` Joe Perches
2018-04-19 4:40 ` Julia Lawall
2018-04-19 4:51 ` Joe Perches
2018-04-19 5:16 ` Julia Lawall
2018-04-19 6:48 ` yuankuiz
2018-04-19 10:42 ` yuankuiz
2018-04-20 1:31 ` yuankuiz
2018-04-11 17:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-04-12 7:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-04-12 8:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-04-12 9:35 ` Andrea Parri
2018-04-12 11:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-04-12 12:01 ` Joe Perches
2018-04-12 12:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-04-12 12:38 ` Joe Perches
2018-04-12 16:47 ` Andrew Morton
2018-04-12 11:52 ` Kalle Valo
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