On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 9:33 AM, <yuankuiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:[ZJ] Thanks for this sharing. Looks like, this patch fall into the case of "Maybe".
From: John Zhao <yuankuiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Variable tick_stopped returned by tick_nohz_tick_stopped
can have only true / forse values. Since the return type
of the tick_nohz_tick_stopped is also bool, variable
tick_stopped nice to have data type as bool in place of int.
Moreover, the executed instructions cost could be minimal
without potiential data type conversion.
Signed-off-by: John Zhao <yuankuiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/time/tick-sched.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.h b/kernel/time/tick-sched.h
index 6de959a..4d34309 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.h
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.h
@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ struct tick_sched {
unsigned long check_clocks;
enum tick_nohz_mode nohz_mode;
+ bool tick_stopped : 1;
unsigned int inidle : 1;
- unsigned int tick_stopped : 1;
unsigned int idle_active : 1;
unsigned int do_timer_last : 1;
unsigned int got_idle_tick : 1;
I don't think this is a good idea at all.
Please see https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/21/384 for example.
Thanks!