Re: [v2 PATCH 4/4] timers: logic to enable timer migration.

From: Arun R Bharadwaj
Date: Wed Mar 04 2009 - 11:53:00 EST


* Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> [2009-03-04 08:33:09]:

> On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 17:49 +0530, Arun R Bharadwaj wrote:
> > @@ -649,6 +650,16 @@ __mod_timer(struct timer_list *timer, un
> >
> > new_base = __get_cpu_var(tvec_bases);
> >
> > + current_cpu = smp_processor_id();
> > + preferred_cpu = get_nohz_load_balancer();
> > + if (enable_timer_migration && !tbase_get_pinned(timer->base)
> > &&
> > + idle_cpu(current_cpu) && preferred_cpu != -1)
> > {
> > + new_base = per_cpu(tvec_bases, preferred_cpu);
> > + timer_set_base(timer, new_base);
> > + timer->expires = expires;
> > + internal_add_timer(new_base, timer);
> > + goto out_unlock;
> > + }
>
> Are you sure this compiles w/ CONFIG_SMP=n ? It looks like
> enable_timer_migration wouldn't exist in that case, but the chunks your
> adding in the timer code are still using it.
>
> Daniel
>

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for pointing this out. I'll clean this up in my next iteration.

--arun
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