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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:06:56 +0100
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To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
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On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 14:40 +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > I agree with this, but it's really widespread throughout the kernel,
> > from interrupts to work items to background threads.  It needs to be
> > solved generically (IIRC vhost has some accouting fix for a similar iss=
ue).
>=20
> Exactly.=20

The fact that we all agree its a problem and that nobody has a sane idea
on how to solve it might argue against this.

Also, the fact that there's existing ugly isn't excuse to stop worrying
about it and add more.

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