From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756894AbYCKMJy (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:09:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752582AbYCKMJq (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:09:46 -0400 Received: from sinclair.provo.novell.com ([137.65.248.137]:51095 "EHLO sinclair.provo.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750959AbYCKMJp convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:09:45 -0400 Message-Id: <47D63CB3.BA47.005A.0@novell.com> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 7.0.3 Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:02:59 -0600 From: "Gregory Haskins" To: "Ingo Molnar" Cc: "Andrew Morton" , "Linus Torvalds" , Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Revert "cpu hotplug: adjust root-domain->onlinespan in response to hotplug References: <20080310205241.9571.38832.stgit@novell1.haskins.net> <20080311085201.GD25110@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20080311085201.GD25110@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 4:52 AM, in message <20080311085201.GD25110@elte.hu>, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Gregory Haskins wrote: > >> This reverts commit 393d94d98b19089ec172566e23557997931b137e. >> >> I submitted 393d94d98b1 to -mm and sched-devel, and then quickly >> realized it was flawed. However, the patch was already "in flight" >> and made it to Linus' tree and is in .25-rc5. So this patch reverts >> the original/flawed fix, and the patch that follows has the updated >> version. > > yeah, but the patch fixed Andrew's regression and passed my testing so i > wanted to have _something_ in -rc5, even if we found the right fix. > > i've applied your revert and the real fix now. Hi Ingo, Understood, and no problem. I just wanted to make sure I accurately described what I was doing ;) Also, for the second patch, make sure you pick up "v2" which has both DYING/DYING_FROZEN. The hotplug gurus indicated that I need both to work properly. Thanks! -Greg