Re: [PATCH 08/25] hrtimer: Reduce conditional code (expires_next, next_timer)

From	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 08/25] hrtimer: Reduce conditional code (expires_next, next_timer)
Date	2017-09-26 14:20 +0200
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On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 12:23:37PM -0000, Anna-Maria Gleixner wrote:
> The hrtimer_cpu_base struct member expires_next and next_timer are
> conditional members (CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS). This makes the hrtimer code
> more complex and harder to understand than it actually is.
> 
> Reduce the conditionals related to those two struct members.

So this grows the data structure for !HIGH_RES for easier code? We no
longer care about archs that don't support HIGH_RES?

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Re: [PATCH 08/25] hrtimer: Reduce conditional code (expires_next,  next_timer) Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-09-26 14:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 08/25] hrtimer: Reduce conditional code (expires_next,  next_timer) Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-09-28 10:10 +0200

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