From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755149AbbDULxi (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2015 07:53:38 -0400 Received: from www.linutronix.de ([62.245.132.108]:57747 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752376AbbDULxh (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2015 07:53:37 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 13:53:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Preeti U Murthy cc: LKML , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Viresh Kumar , Marcelo Tosatti , Frederic Weisbecker Subject: Re: [patch 10/39] hrtimer: Use cpu_base->active_base for hotpath iterators In-Reply-To: <5534E00F.2040606@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Message-ID: References: <20150414203303.702062272@linutronix.de> <20150414203501.322887675@linutronix.de> <5534E00F.2040606@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (DEB 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Linutronix-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Linutronix-Spam-Level: - X-Linutronix-Spam-Status: No , -1.0 points, 5.0 required, ALL_TRUSTED=-1,SHORTCIRCUIT=-0.0001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 20 Apr 2015, Preeti U Murthy wrote: > On 04/15/2015 02:38 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > >>Now that we have the active_bases field in sync we can use it for > > This sentence appears a bit ambiguous. I am guessing you are referring > to what the first patch in this series did, in which case wouldn't it be > better if it is stated a bit more elaborately like 'Now that it is > guaranteed that active_bases field will be in sync with the timerqueue > on the corresponding clock base' ? It took me a while to figure out what > the statement was referring to. Indeed. I'm going to rephrase that. Thanks, tglx