| Date | Tue, 26 Feb 2013 03:15:05 +0530 | From | "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 00/46] CPU hotplug: stop_machine()-free CPU hotplug |
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On 02/22/2013 06:01 AM, Rusty Russell wrote: > "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes: >> Hi, >> >> This patchset removes CPU hotplug's dependence on stop_machine() from the CPU >> offline path and provides an alternative (set of APIs) to preempt_disable() to >> prevent CPUs from going offline, which can be invoked from atomic context. >> The motivation behind the removal of stop_machine() is to avoid its ill-effects >> and thus improve the design of CPU hotplug. (More description regarding this >> is available in the patches). > > If you're doing a v7, please put your benchmark results somewhere! >
Oh, I forgot to put them in v6! Thanks for reminding :-) And yes, I'll have to do a v7 to incorporate changes (if any) to the new code that went in during this merge window.
> The obvious place is in the 44/46. >
Ok, will add it there. Thank you!
Regards, Srivatsa S. Bhat
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