On Sat, Aug 06 2022 at 10:30, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18 2022 at 12:28, Yury Norov wrote: > >> tick_check_preferred() calls cpumask_equal() even if >> curdev->cpumask == newdev->cpumask. Fix it. > > What's to fix here? It's a pointless operation in a slow path and all > your "fix' is doing is to make the code larger. In fact cpumask_equal() should have the ptr1 == ptr2 check, so you don't have to add it all over the place. Thanks, tglx