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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Liu, Chuansheng" <chuansheng.liu@intel.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>,
	"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] Fix the race between smp_call_function and CPU booting
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:46:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1331808391.18960.160.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27240C0AC20F114CBF8149A2696CBE4A056F47@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com>

On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 00:11 +0000, Liu, Chuansheng wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Zijlstra [mailto:peterz@infradead.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 5:43 PM
> > To: Liu, Chuansheng
> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Yanmin Zhang; tglx@linutronix.de
> > Subject: RE: [PATCH] Fix the race between smp_call_function and CPU booting
> > 
> > On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 06:27 +0000, Liu, Chuansheng wrote:
> > > On the unplug case, after set the CPU to !active, we do not need IPI
> > > handling for the corresponding CPU before it is set to offline. I did
> > > not find any impact that limiting the smp_call_function just after CPU
> > > is active.
> > 
> > Have a look at Alpha, it's flush_tlb_mm() can use smp_call_function(), in
> > the !active,online case you very much still need to tlb flush that cpu.
> > 
> > The fact that it works on a limited use case on x86 doesn't say anything much
> > at all.

> Thanks your pointing out, do you have any other perfect solution for this issue?
> As for the stress test result, advancing the setting active before setting online broken
> something either.

I'm not sure I understand.. are you saying that commit
5fbd036b552f633abb394a319f7c62a5c86a9cd7 in tip/master broke something?

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-15 10:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-12  9:27 Liu, Chuansheng
2012-03-12  9:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-13  6:43   ` Liu, Chuansheng
2012-03-12  9:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-13  6:46   ` Liu, Chuansheng
2012-03-13 15:57     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-14  6:27       ` Liu, Chuansheng
2012-03-14  9:43         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-15  0:11           ` Liu, Chuansheng
2012-03-15 10:46             ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-03-16  6:24               ` Liu, Chuansheng
2012-03-16  9:49                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-19  0:58                   ` Liu, Chuansheng
2012-03-19 10:03                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-20  0:22                       ` Liu, Chuansheng
2012-03-20 12:17                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-20 13:14                           ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-03-20 13:41                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-20 15:02                               ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-03-21  5:59                           ` Liu, Chuansheng
2012-03-21  9:12                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-21 12:25                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-22  0:59                               ` Liu, Chuansheng
2012-03-23 10:25                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-23 11:32                                   ` Liu, Chuansheng
2012-03-23 12:02                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-23 12:06                                       ` Liu, Chuansheng
2012-03-23 12:13                                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-23 12:21                                           ` Liu, Chuansheng

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