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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>,
	rusty@au1.ibm.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	LHCS list <lhcs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [lhcs-devel] Re: CPU Hotplug broken -mm5 onwards
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 09:07:57 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1082416075.5564.4.camel@bach> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <408458D5.5030208@yahoo.com.au>

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 08:55, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > So, as Rusty said, I think we really need to consider removing
> > lock_cpu_hotplug from sched_migrate_task. AFAICS that lock
> > was needed to prevent adding tasks to dead cpus. The same 
> > can be accomplished by removing lock_cpu_hotplug from sched_migrate_task
> > and adding a cpu_is_offline check in __migrate_task.
> > This will eliminate all the deadlocks I have been hitting.
> > 
> 
> Yes this would be a better idea. Care to send Andrew a patch
> against -mm?

What surprises me is that this is a regression.  The original hotplug
code on top of Nicksched(TM) removed that lock as part of the "don't
change cpus_allowed to migrate on exec" fix.  When we pushed the patch
straight into Linus' tree, we had to do lock_cpu_hotplug because we
didn't have that code.

Obviously, it escaped somewhere...

Cheers,
Rusty.
-- 
Anyone who quotes me in their signature is an idiot -- Rusty Russell


  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-19 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-18 17:06 CPU Hotplug broken -mm5 onwards Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2004-04-19  3:34 ` Nick Piggin
2004-04-19 12:58   ` [lhcs-devel] " Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2004-04-19 22:55     ` Nick Piggin
2004-04-19 23:07       ` Rusty Russell [this message]
     [not found] ` <20040421023650.24b9f85a.akpm@osdl.org>
     [not found]   ` <20040421095939.GB10767@in.ibm.com>
2004-04-21 16:44     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2004-04-22  7:03       ` Andrew Morton

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