Re: [PATCH v4] x86: UV uv_tlb.c cleanup

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> 
> * Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> wrote:
> 
> > One logic difference:
> > Breaking uv_init_per_cpu() into get_cpu_topology() and summarize_uvhub_sockets()
> > actually corrects a possible bug for the theoretical case in which there is a
> > missing socket on a blade. An 'smaster' (socket master) had been expected for
> > every socket.
> 
> Please, as i asked in the previous mail, do not add logic changes to the 
> cleanup patch! Please keep it in a separate patch, after the big cleanup patch.
> 
> It will be very hard to debug if you find a regression in that cleanup patch: 
> since it also changes logic you do not know whether it's due to changed logic 
> or one of the cleanups having an unintended side-effect ...

Btw, once you've fixed that side-effect i think we can apply your current set 
of cleanups already: it's big enough already and starting to be too big for 
review, and the improvements are very clear. Then we could work on fixing the 
remaining cleanliness issues.

Thanks,

	Ingo