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

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Message-ID: <20080811192517.GF12788@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:25:17 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@....com>,
	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>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/5] [PATCH 3/5] x86: Run Intel ucode-updates via
	workqueue.


* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> wrote:

> 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)

also, with the hotplug notifier call sequence fixed/changed now, there's 
no pressing reason to do this change.

	Ingo
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