linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fix dynticks for voyager

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Date:	Tue, 01 May 2007 17:26:07 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
CC:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix dynticks for voyager

Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 11:38:51AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
>   
>> As usual voyager tripped over an explicit boot CPU is zero assumption in
>> the dynticks code.  This is the fix I have queued in the voyager tree.
>>     
>
> Can we flush out all these assumptions by adding a constant offset
> somewhere? Or reversing the ordering?
>   

My understanding is that the boot CPU is random depending on who wins
the "I get to boot" bunfight.

    J

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