Re: [PATCH RT 3/9][RFC] [PATCH 3/9] lglock/rt: Use non-rtfor_each_cpu() in -rt code

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Mar 02 2012 - 09:20:51 EST


On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 12:55 +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> On 03/02/2012 12:25 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> } \
> > + register_hotcpu_notifier(&name##_lg_cpu_notifier); \
> > + get_online_cpus(); \
> > + for_each_online_cpu(i) \
> > + cpu_set(i, name##_cpus); \
>
>
> This can be further improved. We don't really need this loop. We can replace
> it with:
>
> cpumask_copy(&name##_cpus, cpu_online_mask);
>
> (as pointed out by Ingo. See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/29/93 and
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/29/153).
>
> I will try sending a patch for this to non-RT after the numerous patches
> currently flying around this code (in non-RT) settle down..
>
>

Yeah, I thought that was funny too, but I wanted RT to be close to
mainline. My thoughts were to fix the broken hotplug code at the time
and I wasn't thinking too much on improving mainline ;-)

-- Steve


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