Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753149AbbDGJdw (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Apr 2015 05:33:52 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-f51.google.com ([74.125.82.51]:35369 "EHLO mail-wg0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752686AbbDGJdu (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Apr 2015 05:33:50 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 11:33:46 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Chris Metcalf Cc: Frederic Weisbecker , "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" , "Paul E. McKenney" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Martin Schwidefsky , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] nohz: add tick_nohz_full_clear_cpus() and _set_cpus() APIs Message-ID: <20150407093346.GA10436@gmail.com> References: <5522BF1E.2040606@ezchip.com> <1428344205-27678-1-git-send-email-cmetcalf@ezchip.com> <20150406182934.GA852@lerouge> <5522DA05.6020007@ezchip.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5522DA05.6020007@ezchip.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1532 Lines: 39 * Chris Metcalf wrote: > On 04/06/2015 02:29 PM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 02:16:44PM -0400,cmetcalf@ezchip.com wrote: > >>>From: Chris Metcalf > >>> > >>>The "clear" API is useful, for example, to modify a cpumask to avoid > >>>the nohz cores so that interrupts aren't sent to them. > >>> > >>>Likewise the "set" API is useful to modify a cpumask indicating some > >>>special nohz-type functionality so that the nohz cores are > >>>automatically added to that set. > >>> > >>>Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf > >>>--- > >>>Frederic, if you could ack this patch (and maybe the next) before > >>>I ask for it to be pulled into the timer tree that would be great. > >>>I will wait a few days before asking in case anyone else has any > >>>other issues or would like to provide an Acked-by. > >Sure, or better yet I should take them since they are full nohz code. > >And I have a pending pile to pull-request to timer tree. > > That would be great, thanks. That's fine with me too! My main worry was not about the specific patches but about the route they take: it gets better review and better response to future bugs if it goes through the usual maintainer tree (Frederic's). Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/