From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4-ac: migration_init improvements
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 11:07:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020507180725.GV32767@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1020794038.806.25.camel@bigsur>
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:53:57AM -0700, Robert Love wrote:
> The attached patch simplifies the migration_init code (an ugly lot) with
> a simpler mechanism. This is Erich Focht's version which is now in
> 2.5. It has proved stable both there and in my testing.
> The new method is to bring up the first migration_thread, and then use
> it to migrate the remaining threads to their respective CPUs. The
> method makes sense and removes a lot of code.
> This patch also includes a boot hang fix demonstrated on arches where
> logical CPU mapping != physical CPU mapping. The bug was reported and
> fixed by James Bottomley in 2.5.
> Patch is against 2.4.19-pre7-ac4, please apply.
> Robert Love
No objections here. Focht's code works just as well or better, and has
further advantages with respect to hotplug cpu support.
Cheers,
Bill
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2002-05-07 17:53 [PATCH] 2.4-ac: migration_init improvements Robert Love
2002-05-07 18:07 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
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