Re: [PATCH] smpboot: allow excluding cpus from the smpboot threads

Chris Metcalf
2015-04-14T15:40:05Z

On 04/14/2015 11:23 AM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 12:06:50PM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote:
>> Also, I want to ask Linus to pull the tile-specific changes for nohz_full
>> for the tile architecture. This includes a copy of the change to add the
>> tick_nohz_full_add_cpus_to() and tick_nohz_full_remove_cpus_from()
>> routines here:
> Hmm, this is going to be too late to push the tick_nohz_full_add_cpus_to()
> stuff for this merge window. This needs to go through nohz core tree and
> we are already in the middle of the merge window.

I'll defer the change in the tilegx network driver until the next merge.
(I guess what I would do is cherrypick the nohz change into the tile tree
to keep it easy to build and just assume it's easy to resolve when it's
pulled for 4.2.)

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Chris Metcalf, EZChip Semiconductor