Re: [PATCH] s390 (9/9): no timer interrupts in idle.

[Dipankar Sarma]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 10:24:23AM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> 
> > idle_cpu_mask does not really represent CPUs that are conventionally
> > called "idle", it represents the ones that have hz timer switched
> > off (in your patch). So, why not just call it nohz_cpu_mask ?
> > RCU doesn't need an idle cpu mask, it has its own mechanism
> > for detecting idle cpus, it just needs to know about the ones
> > that have hz timers switched off. If you call it nohz_cpu_mask,
> > then it would make sense to say that for systems which do not
> > switch off hz timer, nohz_cpu_mask will always be CPU_MASK_NONE.
> 
> Ok, I don't really mind the name change. It's nohz_cpu_mask then.

Thanks. Sorry about the name nitpick, I too didn't think about this
when Jan had first sent me the patch.

Dipankar
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