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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
	Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	tglx@linutronix.de, tj@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] srcu: Remove srcu_queue_delayed_work_on()
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 07:26:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181213152653.GJ4170@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181213150358.bgrwgpp5am5w53ie@linutronix.de>

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 04:03:58PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2018-12-12 22:05:19 [+0800], Boqun Feng wrote:
> > So Jiangshan and TJ, what's your opion on this one? If we call a
> > queue_work_on() at a place where that target cpu may be offlined, I
> > think we have the guarantee that the work will be eventually executed
> > even if the cpu is never online again, right? In other words, if a cpu
> > has been online once, queue_work_on() on it will be free from racing
> > with cpu hotplug.
> > 
> > Am I right about this, or did I miss something subtle?
> 
> tj answered this one:
>   https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180919205521.GE902964@devbig004.ftw2.facebook.com

I must confess that I would have felt better about that email had it
been more definite than "is might just work already".  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul


      reply	other threads:[~2018-12-13 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-11 11:12 [PATCH] srcu: Remove srcu_queue_delayed_work_on() Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-12-11 17:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-12-12  1:40 ` Joel Fernandes
2018-12-12 14:05   ` Boqun Feng
2018-12-12 15:55     ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-12-13  1:36       ` Joel Fernandes
2018-12-13 15:06       ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-12-13 15:03     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-12-13 15:26       ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]

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