Re: CPUFREQ-CPUHOTPLUG: Possible circular locking dependency

Ingo Molnar
2006-11-30T08:33:30Z

* Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> wrote:

> So do we
> - Rethink the strategy of per-subsystem hotcpu-locks ?
>
> OR
>
> - Think of a way to straighten out the super-convoluted cpufreq code ?

i'm still wondering what the conceptual source of this fundamental
locking complexity in cpufreq (and hotplug) is - it is not intuitive to
me at all. Could you try to explain that?

Ingo