Re: [PATCH V2 1/2] sched: idle: Encapsulate the code to compile it out

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Wed Apr 30 2014 - 18:40:20 EST


On Thursday, May 01, 2014 12:47:25 AM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 02:01:02 PM Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> > Encapsulate the large portion of cpuidle_idle_call inside another
> > function so when CONFIG_CPU_IDLE=n, the code will be compiled out.
> > Also that is benefitial for the clarity of the code as it removes
> > a nested indentation level.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Well, this conflicts with
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/4071541/
>
> which you haven't commented on and I still want cpuidle_select() to be able to
> return negative values because of
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/4089631/
>
> (and I have one more patch on top of these two that requires this).

Moreover (along the lines of Nico said) after https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/4071541/
we actually don't need the #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_IDLE in your patch, because cpuidle_select()
for CONFIG_CPU_IDLE unset is a static inline returning a negative number and the compiler
should optimize out the blocks that depend on it being non-negative.

Thanks!


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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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