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Date:	Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:02:02 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] change number_of_cpusets to an atomic

On Mon, 23 Apr 2012, Glauber Costa wrote:

> This will allow us to call destroy() without holding the
> cgroup_mutex(). Other important updates inside update_flags()
> are protected by the callback_mutex.
>
> We could protect this variable with the callback_mutex as well,
> as suggested by Li Zefan, but we need to make sure we are protected
> by that mutex at all times, and some of its updates happen inside the
> cgroup_mutex - which means we would deadlock.

Would this not also be a good case to introduce static branching?

number_of_cpusets is used to avoid going through unnecessary processing
should there be no cpusets in use.

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