Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264279AbUD2MIf (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Apr 2004 08:08:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264295AbUD2MIf (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Apr 2004 08:08:35 -0400 Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.132]:4800 "EHLO e34.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264279AbUD2MId (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Apr 2004 08:08:33 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:36:41 +0530 From: Dipankar Sarma To: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: akpm@osdl.org, hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390 (9/9): no timer interrupts in idle. Message-ID: <20040429120641.GB3663@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: dipankar@in.ibm.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1045 Lines: 22 On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 10:24:23AM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > > > idle_cpu_mask does not really represent CPUs that are conventionally > > called "idle", it represents the ones that have hz timer switched > > off (in your patch). So, why not just call it nohz_cpu_mask ? > > RCU doesn't need an idle cpu mask, it has its own mechanism > > for detecting idle cpus, it just needs to know about the ones > > that have hz timers switched off. If you call it nohz_cpu_mask, > > then it would make sense to say that for systems which do not > > switch off hz timer, nohz_cpu_mask will always be CPU_MASK_NONE. > > Ok, I don't really mind the name change. It's nohz_cpu_mask then. Thanks. Sorry about the name nitpick, I too didn't think about this when Jan had first sent me the patch. Dipankar - 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/