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Message-ID: <20071115163619.GA110@tv-sign.ru>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:36:19 +0300
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
To: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Rusty Russel <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>,
Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@...ibm.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Paul E McKenney <paulmck@...ibm.com>,
Richard Gooch <rgooch@...f.csiro.au>,
Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...azian.fs.co.uk>,
Shoahua Li <shaohua.li@...ux.com>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
Nathan Lynch <ntl@...ox.com>, Paul Jackson <pj@....com>,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] cpu-hotplug: Replace per-subsystem mutexes with get_online_cpus()
On 11/15, Gautham R Shenoy wrote:
>
> This patch converts the known per-subsystem mutexes to get_online_cpus
> put_online_cpus. It also eliminates the CPU_LOCK_ACQUIRE
> and CPU_LOCK_RELEASE hotplug notification events.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ibm.com>
> ---
> include/linux/notifier.h | 4 +---
> kernel/cpu.c | 4 ----
> kernel/sched.c | 25 +++++++++----------------
> kernel/workqueue.c | 35 +++++++++++++++--------------------
> mm/slab.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
Can't really comment the changes outside the workqueue.c, but imho the
whole series is very good.
Oleg.
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