From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com, linux-input@vger.kernel.org,
dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about usage of RCU in the input layer
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:50:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090320065058.65d01771@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090320044541.GE6807@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:45:41 -0700
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > single CPU is soooo last decade ;-)
> > But seriously I no longer have systems that aren't dual core or SMT
> > in some form...
>
> OK, I will ask the stupid question...
>
> Why not delay bringing up the non-boot CPUs until later in boot?
that'd be throwing out the baby with the bathwater... I'm trying to use
the other cpus to do some of the boot work (so that the total goes
faster); not using the other cpus would be counter productive to that.
(As is just sitting in synchronize_rcu() when the other cpu is
working.. hence this discussion ;-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-20 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-19 4:58 Question about usage of RCU in the input layer Arjan van de Ven
2009-03-19 7:23 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-03-19 14:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-03-19 8:56 ` Dipankar Sarma
2009-03-19 14:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-03-20 2:07 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-03-20 3:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-03-20 4:45 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-03-20 5:28 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-20 6:01 ` Dipankar Sarma
2009-03-20 6:35 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-20 13:50 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2009-03-20 14:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-03-20 18:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-03-21 1:27 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-03-21 4:58 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-03-21 18:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-03-21 19:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-03-21 20:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-21 21:07 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-03-22 3:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-03-22 4:38 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-03-22 4:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-03-22 5:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-03-22 5:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-03-22 16:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-03-22 19:46 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-03-22 20:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-03-22 22:44 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-03-22 23:03 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-03-22 23:16 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-03-23 1:27 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-04-03 1:27 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-03-21 21:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-03-20 22:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-03-21 5:46 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-03-21 9:13 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-21 18:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
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