From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761422AbYCCENP (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Mar 2008 23:13:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753042AbYCCENA (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Mar 2008 23:13:00 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:47506 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752559AbYCCEM7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Mar 2008 23:12:59 -0500 From: Rusty Russell To: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] add ALL_CPUS option to stop_machine_run() Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 15:12:50 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) Cc: Max Krasnyanskiy , Jason Baron , Mathieu Desnoyers , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra References: <20080202210828.840735763@polymtl.ca> <47C84DCD.5040803@qualcomm.com> <20080229191559.GA18339@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20080229191559.GA18339@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803031512.51656.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 01 March 2008 06:15:59 Ingo Molnar wrote: > Right now the answer is: "if you want to do hard RT then avoid doing > things like loading modules". (which you should avoid while doing > hard-RT anyway) Hi Ingo, I agree, but Max is doing a service by making more people aware of the limitations of stop_machine so they don't sprinkle it around like candy :) I think the module load case can be reasonably fixed; it's in my backlog now. Cheers, Rusty.