linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cpuhotplug: introduce try_get_online

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Date:	Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:36:23 +0800
From:	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
CC:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ibm.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, dipankar@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpuhotplug: introduce try_get_online_cpus() take 2

Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>> Add CC to Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
>>
>> (This patch is against mainline but not for inclusion, it will adapted
>> against -mm when request)
>>
>> Requst For Comments and Reviewing Hungeringly.
>>
>> - Lockless for get_online_cpus()'s fast path
>> - Introduce try_get_online_cpus()
> 
> One question for Gautham Shenoy -- are non-atomic CPU-hotplug notifiers
> always invoked from the task that did the cpu_hotplug_begin()?
> 
> If so, well and good.  If not, then it would not be possible to
> expedite RCU grace periods from within CPU-hotplug notifiers.
> 
> 							Thanx, Paul
> 


I have no proper machine for several days to test the next version
of this patch, so it is still being delayed a while.

Lai.



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