Re: [patch] sched_clock(): cleanups

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri May 25 2007 - 04:03:29 EST



* Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Propose a better way to code this then? It's not my fault that dealing
> with callbacks in C is so messy. _here just massages one callback
> prototype (smp_call_function's) into another (cpufreq's) because both
> callbacks do the same in this case.

see the last iteration of the cleanups i did. Naming the function after
what it does, and prefixing the preempt-unsafe one __ does the trick.

> The r_s_f BTW stands for resync_sc_freq which is a function earlier in
> the file and should be familiar to a serious reader.

I consider myself a serious reader and it wasnt obvious to me. Names
must always be descriptive, we cannot hold all the details in our heads
all the time.

Ingo
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