linux-kernel - Re: [patch 3/5] [PATCH 3/5] x86: Run Intel ucode-updates via workqueue.

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Message-ID: <20080806084446.68683aaf@infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 6 Aug 2008 08:44:46 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@....com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@...il.com>,
	Max Krasnyansky <maxk@...lcomm.com>,
	Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...azian.fsnet.co.uk>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@....com>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/5] [PATCH 3/5] x86: Run Intel ucode-updates via
 workqueue.

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 17:21:20 +0200
Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@....com> wrote:

[ no description or reason ]

Why is this?

I'm not very happy about this.. it means practically that this stuff
*has* to run late. Probably later than we want to.
(Like.. we may want to redo the microcode during resume.. which is
not a schedulable context)


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