Re: [PATCH 1/5] irq_work: Split raised and lazy lists

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 04:40:16PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> @@ -90,10 +89,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(irq_work_queue);
>  
>  bool irq_work_needs_cpu(void)
>  {
> -	struct llist_head *this_list;
> +	struct llist_head *list;
>  
> -	this_list = &__get_cpu_var(irq_work_list);
> -	if (llist_empty(this_list))
> +	list = &__get_cpu_var(lazy_list);
> +	if (llist_empty(list))
>  		return false;
>  
>  	/* All work should have been flushed before going offline */

Does this mean needs_cpu() only checks the lazy list? What about archs
without the arch_irq_work_raise() function? They run the other list from
the tick too.

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