From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964827AbVLFF10 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 00:27:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964897AbVLFF10 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 00:27:26 -0500 Received: from b3162.static.pacific.net.au ([203.143.238.98]:16071 "EHLO cunningham.myip.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964827AbVLFF1Z (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 00:27:25 -0500 Subject: Re: Nick's preempt nosched patch. From: Nigel Cunningham Reply-To: ncunningham@cyclades.com To: Andrew Morton Cc: Nick Piggin , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <1133844903.5501.17.camel@localhost> References: <1133844903.5501.17.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Cyclades Message-Id: <1133846622.5501.20.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6-1mdk Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:23:53 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi again. On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 15:02, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > A while ago I had a problem with cpu hotplug failing to take down cpus > due to preemption problems. Nick prepared a patch (included below) that > fixed this, but it's not yet in mainline. The problem seems to have > disappeared on my work desktop (so I thought it had been applied until I > did a quick check), but a suspend2 user has just reported the problem > again. Can look at applying this or something better in mainline, > please? Ah. I eat my words, having discovered that it has been merged since 2.6.14, which I was looking at earlier. Sorry for the noise. Nigel