Re: [PATCH] cgroup/cpuset: drop useless cpumask_empty() in compute_effective_exclusive_cpumask()

[Waiman Long <llong@redhat.com>]

On 5/8/25 3:32 PM, Yury Norov wrote:
> Empty cpumasks can't intersect with any others. Therefore, testing for
> non-emptyness is useless.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
> ---
>   kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c | 6 ++----
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
> index 306b60430091..df308072f268 100644
> --- a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
> +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
> @@ -1388,14 +1388,12 @@ static int compute_effective_exclusive_cpumask(struct cpuset *cs,
>   		if (sibling == cs)
>   			continue;
>   
> -		if (!cpumask_empty(sibling->exclusive_cpus) &&
> -		    cpumask_intersects(xcpus, sibling->exclusive_cpus)) {
> +		if (cpumask_intersects(xcpus, sibling->exclusive_cpus)) {
>   			cpumask_andnot(xcpus, xcpus, sibling->exclusive_cpus);
>   			retval++;
>   			continue;
>   		}
> -		if (!cpumask_empty(sibling->effective_xcpus) &&
> -		    cpumask_intersects(xcpus, sibling->effective_xcpus)) {
> +		if (cpumask_intersects(xcpus, sibling->effective_xcpus)) {
>   			cpumask_andnot(xcpus, xcpus, sibling->effective_xcpus);
>   			retval++;
>   		}

You are right. Non-emptiness check is useless.

Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>