Messages in this thread | | | Date | 24 May 2005 14:28:17 +0200 | Date | Tue, 24 May 2005 14:28:17 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [patch 4/4] CPU Hotplug support for X86_64 |
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On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 01:11:17AM -0700, Ashok Raj wrote: > This patch tries to eliminate a race condition with IPI broadcast and > CPU hotplug. Since when we broadcast we dont have control on what cpus > see a spurious intr, or possiblity of receiving an intr when the cpu is > just in process of comming up, we choose to send targetted IPI only to online > cpus.
I thought you had fixed that already in the other patch with the locking of call_lock. Or did I miss something?
I dont like this patch.
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