Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 14/23] rcu: Remove now-unused rcu_statefields

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 04:17:03PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-08-30 at 11:18 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Moving the RCU grace-period processing to a kthread and adjusting the
> > tracing resulted in two of the rcu_state structure's fields being unused.
> > This commit therefore removes them.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  kernel/rcutree.h |    7 -------
> >  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.h b/kernel/rcutree.h
> > index 2d4cc18..8f0293c 100644
> > --- a/kernel/rcutree.h
> > +++ b/kernel/rcutree.h
> > @@ -378,13 +378,6 @@ struct rcu_state {
> >  
> >  	u8	fqs_state ____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp;
> >  						/* Force QS state. */
> > -	u8	fqs_active;			/* force_quiescent_state() */
> > -						/*  is running. */
> > -	u8	fqs_need_gp;			/* A CPU was prevented from */
> > -						/*  starting a new grace */
> > -						/*  period because */
> > -						/*  force_quiescent_state() */
> > -						/*  was running. */
> >  	u8	boost;				/* Subject to priority boost. */
> >  	unsigned long gpnum;			/* Current gp number. */
> >  	unsigned long completed;		/* # of last completed gp. */
> 
> Typically one would fold this change into the patch that caused said
> redundancy and not mention it. Save a patch to (post/review/merge) and
> makes the patches a more solid whole.

Fair enough.  I still like the idea of pulling the stuff creating
rcu_gp_kthread() into one patch, though.

							Thanx, Paul

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