linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched: allow preempt notifiers to self-unregister.

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Date:	Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:10:09 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Pierre Habouzit <pierre.habouzit@...ersec.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: allow preempt notifiers to self-unregister.

On 12/16/2011 06:15 PM, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
>   As a background, this need is because I have some kind of module code
>   that uses this facility to evaluate how many of a group of threads are
>   concurrently running (to regulate a pool of threads).
>

That's what's cmwq is supposed to be doing (and that too should be using
preempt notifiers, IMO).


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