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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Cc: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@austin.ibm.com>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] cpu hotplug notifier for updating sched domains
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 20:18:44 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1094725124.25639.18.camel@bach> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <413E6C49.5080106@cyberone.com.au>

On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 12:19, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Nathan Lynch wrote:
> >Well, we have to "lie" to arch_init_sched_domains a little bit when
> >bringing a cpu online, by setting the soon-to-be-online cpu's bit in the
> >argument mask.  So I think the first patch is still necessary.

I'm still a little surprised that you don't change the domains while the
machine is frozen (ie in take_cpu_down()).  This should avoid any races,
since noone can be looking at the domains at this time.

> Do you have a theoretical race here? Can we hotplug a CPU before the notifier
> is registered? (I know we *can't* because it is still earlyish boot).

No, init has so many serial assumptions that this is the least of our
worries.

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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-09 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-07 18:50 [patch 2/2] cpu hotplug notifier for updating sched domains nathanl
2004-09-08  0:44 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-08  2:05   ` Nathan Lynch
2004-09-08  2:19     ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-08  2:55       ` Nathan Lynch
2004-09-09 10:18       ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2004-09-09 10:31         ` Nick Piggin

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