Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 02:51:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 02:51:18 -0400 Received: from dp.samba.org ([66.70.73.150]:46255 "EHLO lists.samba.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 02:51:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 16:47:12 +1000 From: Rusty Russell To: Andrew Morton Cc: rlahti@netikka.fi, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched.c Message-Id: <20020828164712.7ed21782.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3D6BC685.216B5B67@zip.com.au> References: <000b01c24df5$aacc7ed0$d20a5f0a@deldaran> <3D6BC685.216B5B67@zip.com.au> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; powerpc-debian-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 915 Lines: 21 On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 11:35:49 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > But these are not performance-critical functions. And by far the > most inefficient part of them is that they're reading data for > CPUs which cannot exist. That can be fixed with a `cpu_possible(i)' > test in there, but Rusty was going to give us a `for_each_cpu' macro. > We haven't seen that yet. I have it, but Linus isn't taking the prerequeisite, which changes cpu masks to generic bitmaps. Due to be retransmitted in the next couple of days, Rusty. -- there are those who do and those who hang on and you don't see too many doers quoting their contemporaries. -- Larry McVoy - 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/