Re: [PATCH] sched: rewrite SCHED_CPUMASK_ALLOC

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Nov 06 2008 - 03:01:18 EST



* Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> #if NR_CPUS > 128
> -#define SCHED_CPUMASK_ALLOC 1
> -#define SCHED_CPUMASK_FREE(v) kfree(v)
> -#define SCHED_CPUMASK_DECLARE(v) struct allmasks *v
> +#define SCHED_CPUMASK_DECLARE(v) struct allmasks *v
> +#define SCHED_CPUMASK_ALLOC(v) v = kmalloc(sizeof(*v), GFP_KERNEL)
> +#define SCHED_CPUMASK_FREE(v) kfree(v)
> #else
> -#define SCHED_CPUMASK_ALLOC 0
> -#define SCHED_CPUMASK_FREE(v)
> -#define SCHED_CPUMASK_DECLARE(v) struct allmasks _v, *v = &_v
> +#define SCHED_CPUMASK_DECLARE(v) struct allmasks _v, *v = &_v
> +#define SCHED_CPUMASK_ALLOC(v)
> +#define SCHED_CPUMASK_FREE(v)
> #endif

ok, the #ifdef removal is nice, but we can make it even cleaner:
please just change it to a sched_cpumask_alloc() inline. That way
SCHED_CPUMASK_DECLARE() can go away as well: just declare the
variable, it will be unused in the <128 CPUs case.

Ingo
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