Re: [PATCH] percpu data: only iterate over possible CPUs

[Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>]

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 09:48:41AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > This one:
> > 
> > --- devel/fs/file.c~reduce-size-of-percpudata-and-make-sure-per_cpuobject	2006-02-04 23:27:17.000000000 -0800
> > +++ devel-akpm/fs/file.c	2006-02-04 23:27:17.000000000 -0800
> > @@ -379,7 +379,6 @@ static void __devinit fdtable_defer_list
> >  void __init files_defer_init(void)
> >  {
> >  	int i;
> > -	/* Really early - can't use for_each_cpu */
> > -	for (i = 0; i < NR_CPUS; i++)
> > +	for_each_cpu(i)
> >  		fdtable_defer_list_init(i);
> >  }
> > 
> > And yes, me too - when I saw that comment disappear I checked and decided
> > that the comment was both wrong and undesirable.
> 
> Ahh, yes. The comment is totally incorrect, we must have done the CPU 
> setup much too later a long long time ago ;)

One would think so, but I recall not all archs did that. Alpha for
example sets up cpu_possible_map in smp_prepare_cpus(). It however
makes more sense to fix the arch then use NR_CPUS, IMO.

Thanks
Dipankar