Re: [PATCH 00/10] x86, xsave: some code cleanups and reworks

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:52:11PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 09:32:35AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > On 07/20/2010 01:17 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > > 
> > > well, not true, this id is being set in setup_per_cpu_areas()
> > > note the snippet
> > > 
> > > 		if (cpu == boot_cpu_id)
> > > 			switch_to_new_gdt(cpu);
> > > 
> > > but cycle of assignment is done over all possible cpus so
> > > smp_processor_id will be = 0 for BP but definitely it's
> > > confusing and better to check for BP via explicit cpu == boot_cpu_id
> > > I think. Though I might be missing something.
> > > 
> > 
> > I think the style (!smp_processor_id()) is already in use in other
> > places, but we should be consistent in style; if you want to introduce a
> > new style I certainly agree that (is_boot_cpu()) is pretty clear but it
> > should be introduced universally.
> > 
> > 	-hpa
> >
> 

Peter, also I think such tuning must be done at merge window time only,
just to not break other's patch queues.

	-- Cyrill
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