linux-kernel - Re: current linux-2.6.git: cpusets completely broken

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807112026390.2875@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:28:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
cc:	Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@...il.com>,
	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	Max Krasnyansky <maxk@...lcomm.com>, Paul Jackson <pj@....com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, miaox@...fujitsu.com,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: current linux-2.6.git: cpusets completely broken



On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> 
> Can somebody else please test/ack/review it too? This should eventually
> go into 2.6.26 if it doesn't break anything else.

And Dmitry, _please_ also explain what was going on. Why did things break 
from calling common_cpu_mem_hotplug_unplug() too much? That function is 
called pretty randomly anyway (for just about any random CPU event), so 
why did it fail in some circumstances?

		Linus
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