From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lglock: make lg_lock_global() actually lock globally
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:08:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1282817329.1975.486.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C7638B7.9060306@kernel.org>
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 11:49 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> If there's a pressing need, doing stop_machine for
> onlining too is definitely an option.
I would argue against that.. we should try and rid ourselves of
stopmachine, not add more dependencies on it. If you want to sync
against preempt_disable thingies synchronize_sched() is your friend.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-26 10:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-25 19:28 [PATCH] lglock: make lg_lock_global() actually lock globally Jonathan Corbet
2010-08-25 20:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-08-25 20:16 ` Jonathan Corbet
2010-08-26 4:23 ` Nick Piggin
2010-08-26 8:55 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-26 9:46 ` Nick Piggin
2010-08-26 9:49 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-26 9:50 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-26 10:08 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-08-26 11:38 ` Nick Piggin
2010-08-26 11:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-26 11:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-27 5:51 ` Nick Piggin
2010-08-27 7:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-27 7:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-26 10:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
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2010-09-08 22:54 Jonathan Corbet
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