From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@cyclades.com>,
Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Fix race in cpu_down (hotplug cpu)
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:30:45 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050919070045.GB9466@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1127111379.5272.5.camel@npiggin-nld.site>
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 04:29:39PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> It seems to me that it would be much nicer to just go with Nigel's
> first fix. That is, rather than clutter up all idle routines with
> this.
I felt it to be more of a hack to get things working (do we really
want the idle thread to be rescheduled at that point?). Plus the fact
that it can cause the idle thread to call schedule() before the cpu_is_offline
check made me uncomfortable (maybe it is just fine).
--
Thanks and Regards,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri,
Linux Technology Center,
IBM Software Labs,
Bangalore, INDIA - 560017
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-19 7:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-19 4:48 Li, Shaohua
2005-09-19 5:10 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-19 5:31 ` Shaohua Li
2005-09-19 5:57 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-19 6:11 ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-09-19 6:23 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-19 6:29 ` Nick Piggin
2005-09-19 7:00 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri [this message]
2005-09-19 6:31 ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-09-19 7:09 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-19 6:37 ` Shaohua Li
2005-09-19 6:36 ` Nick Piggin
2005-09-19 6:54 ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-09-19 7:12 ` Shaohua Li
2005-09-19 7:22 ` Nick Piggin
2005-09-19 7:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-09-19 7:37 ` Nick Piggin
2005-09-19 22:55 ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-09-20 4:41 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-19 7:07 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-19 5:23 ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-09-19 5:28 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-19 5:35 ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-09-19 7:43 ` Where do packets sent to 255.255.255.255 go? Wei-Che, Hsu
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-19 3:28 PATCH: Fix race in cpu_down (hotplug cpu) Nigel Cunningham
2005-09-19 4:22 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-19 3:15 Nigel Cunningham
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