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Message-ID: <487EF1E9.2040101@qualcomm.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:16:57 -0700
From: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@...lcomm.com>
To: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>
CC: a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, mingo@...e.hu, dmitry.adamushko@...il.com,
torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, pj@....com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpu hotplug, sched: Introduce cpu_active_map and redosched
domain managment (take 2)
Gregory Haskins wrote:
> Well, admittedly I am not entirely clear on what problem is being solved as
> I was not part of the original thread with Linus. My impression of what you
> were trying to solve was to eliminate the need to rebuild the domains for a
> hotplug event (which I think is a good problem to solve), thus eliminating
> some complexity and (iiuc) races there.
>
> However, based on what you just said, I am not sure I've got that entirely
> right anymore. Can you clarify the intent (or point me at the original thread)
> so we are on the same page?
Here is the link to the original thread
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/11/328
And here is where Linus explained the idea
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/12/137
I'll reply to the rest of your email tomorrow (can't keep my yes open any
longer :)).
Max
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