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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>,
	vatsa@in.ibm.com, lhcs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org,
	rml@tech9.net
Subject: Re: CPU Hotplug: Hotplug Script And SIGPWR
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:51:11 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040121043608.571732C094@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:52:07 -0800." <20040120065207.GA10993@hockin.org>

In message <20040120065207.GA10993@hockin.org> you write:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 05:43:59PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Seems less robust and more ad hoc than SIGPWR, however.
> 
> Disagree.  SIGPWR will kill any process that doesn't catch it.  That's
> policy.  It seems more robust to let the hotplug script decide what to do.
> If it wants to kill each unrunnable task with SIGPWR, it can.  But if it
> wants to let them live, it can.

The proposal was to send SIGPWR only if they don't have it set to the
default, for this reason.

I think that if your patch goes in, it will complement this solution
nicely.

Thanks!
Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-21  4:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20040116174446.A2820@in.ibm.com>
2004-01-20  5:44 ` CPU Hotplug: Hotplug Script And SIGPWR Rusty Russell
2004-01-20  6:33   ` Tim Hockin
2004-01-20  6:43     ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-20  6:52       ` Tim Hockin
2004-01-20  7:11         ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-20  7:30           ` Tim Hockin
2004-01-20  7:45             ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-20  7:54               ` Tim Hockin
2004-01-20  8:14                 ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-20  8:29                   ` Tim Hockin
2004-01-20  8:37                     ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-20  8:43                       ` Tim Hockin
2004-01-21  4:06                         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2004-01-21  4:14                           ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-21  5:09                             ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2004-01-21  7:08                               ` Tim Hockin
2004-01-21 15:07                                 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-01-22  5:29                                 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-21  7:09                             ` Tim Hockin
2004-01-21  7:31                               ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-21  7:42                                 ` Tim Hockin
2004-01-21  8:11                             ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-21  5:07                           ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-20  8:41                   ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-01-20  8:49                     ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-20  9:12                       ` Tim Hockin
2004-01-21  0:00                 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-20 23:51         ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2004-01-20  7:45     ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-20  8:37       ` Tim Hockin
2004-01-20  9:29         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2004-01-21  0:12         ` Rusty Russell
     [not found] <fa.f37o48p.1io5q5@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.frjqvfo.170g8hq@ifi.uio.no>
2004-01-20 17:49   ` Andy Lutomirski
2004-01-21  4:33     ` Rusty Russell

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