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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] perf: remove __weak function
 hw_perf_group_sched_in()
From: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
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On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 16:29 +0800, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 15:50 +0800, Lin Ming wrote:
> 
> > This patch series is to remove hw_perf_group_sched_in() first.
> > 
> > patch 1: core, add group scheduling transactional APIs
> > patch 2: x86, implement group scheduling transactional APIs
> > patch 3: powerpc, implement group scheduling transactional APIs
> > patch 4: sparc, implement group scheduling transactional APIs
> > 
> > Thanks for any comment.
> 
> Don't RISC architectures deal better with word sized variables than with
> u8? I thought it curious you used u8 for the flags thing instead of int
> or long, but I'm not quite sure it really matters one way or the other.

Will change it to "unsigned int".

Thanks.