From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC patch 2/5] smpboot: Provide infrastructure for percpu hotplug threads
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:17:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120613191745.GG2427@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1206132101440.3086@ionos>
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 09:02:55PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:00:54AM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > /* Now call notifier in preparation. */
> > > cpu_notify(CPU_ONLINE | mod, hcpu);
> > > + smpboot_unpark_threads(cpu);
> >
> > OK, RCU must use the lower-level interfaces, given that one of
> > then CPU_ONLINE notifiers might invoke synchronize_rcu().
>
> We can start the threads before the notifiers. There is no
> restriction.
Sounds very good in both cases!
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-13 19:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-13 11:00 [RFC patch 0/5] Per cpu thread hotplug infrastructure Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-13 11:00 ` [RFC patch 1/5] kthread: Implement park/unpark facility Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-14 2:32 ` Namhyung Kim
2012-06-14 8:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-14 8:59 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-14 8:36 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-06-14 20:01 ` Silas Boyd-Wickizer
2012-06-14 20:13 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-14 22:13 ` Silas Boyd-Wickizer
2012-06-15 1:44 ` Tejun Heo
2012-06-13 11:00 ` [RFC patch 2/5] smpboot: Provide infrastructure for percpu hotplug threads Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-13 18:33 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-13 18:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-14 8:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-14 8:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-15 1:53 ` Tejun Heo
2012-06-15 9:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-14 8:37 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-14 8:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-13 18:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-13 19:02 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-13 19:17 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2012-06-13 20:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-14 4:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-14 11:20 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-14 12:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-14 13:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-14 14:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-14 14:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-14 15:07 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-14 15:45 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-14 16:20 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-14 13:32 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-14 13:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-14 14:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-14 15:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-14 15:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-14 14:50 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-14 15:02 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-14 15:38 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-14 16:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-14 16:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-14 22:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-14 8:31 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-06-14 8:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-18 8:47 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-06-18 8:50 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-13 11:00 ` [RFC patch 3/5] softirq: Use hotplug thread infrastructure Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-13 11:00 ` [RFC patch 5/5] infiniband: ehca: " Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-18 6:30 ` Rusty Russell
2012-06-18 8:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-24 10:29 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-13 11:00 ` [RFC patch 4/5] watchdog: " Thomas Gleixner
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