Re: [PATCH 5/7] irq_work: Don't stop the tick with pending works

[Frederic Weisbecker]

2012/11/15 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 21:37 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>> diff --git a/kernel/irq_work.c b/kernel/irq_work.c
>> index 64eddd5..b3c113a 100644
>> --- a/kernel/irq_work.c
>> +++ b/kernel/irq_work.c
>> @@ -99,6 +99,17 @@ bool irq_work_queue(struct irq_work *work)
>>  }
>>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(irq_work_queue);
>>
>> +bool irq_work_needs_cpu(void)
>> +{
>> +     struct llist_head *this_list;
>> +
>> +     this_list = &__get_cpu_var(irq_work_list);
>> +     if (llist_empty(this_list))
>> +             return false;
>> +
>
> I wounder if this should just be:
>
>         return !llist_empty(&this_cpu_read(irq_work_list));

Yeah I'll simplify that way.
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