Re: [PATCH 3/4] 2.6.2-rc2-mm2 CPU Hotplug: The Core

Ingo Molnar
2004-02-03T08:33:10Z

* Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:

> > > If we can't do it well, leave it to userspace to sort out 8)
> >
> > yes, but currently there's no mechanism for userspace to get notified -
> > hence no clean way for userspace to sort it out. (other than userspace
> > continuously polling the CPU mask - bleh.) But this is a separate issue.
>
> We use /sbin/hotplug at the moment. I'm hoping that DBUS turn this
> from "possible" into "easy" some day...

ok. Anyway, it should be relatively rare for userspace to care about
this.

Ingo