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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
	sivanich@sgi.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	peterz@infradead.org, dipankar@in.ibm.com, josh@freedesktop.org,
	paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, oleg@redhat.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] stop_machine: reimplement using cpuhog
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:21:23 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B958673.3000105@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100308083204.1300b97a@infradead.org>

Hello,

On 03/09/2010 01:32 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue,  9 Mar 2010 00:53:21 +0900
> Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
>> Reimplement stop_machine using cpuhog.  As cpuhogs are guaranteed to
>> be available for all online cpus, stop_machine_create/destroy() are no
>> longer necessary and removed.
> 
> question;
> stop_machine pretty much also stops interrupts (it has to, at least for
> the users of stop_machine).. do cpu_hogs do this too?
> 
> (if they don't, cpu_hogs aren't safe for some of the users of
> stop_machine, like code patching etc)

That is and has always been done by stop_machine cpuhog callback
stop_cpu().  Only the thread pool is changed.  The logic stays the
same.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-08 23:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-08 15:53 [PATCHSET] cpuhog: implement and use cpuhog Tejun Heo
2010-03-08 15:53 ` [PATCH 1/4] cpuhog: implement cpuhog Tejun Heo
2010-03-08 19:01   ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-08 23:18     ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-08 15:53 ` [PATCH 2/4] stop_machine: reimplement using cpuhog Tejun Heo
2010-03-08 16:32   ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-03-08 23:21     ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2010-03-08 17:10   ` Heiko Carstens
2010-03-08 18:27     ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-08 19:37       ` Heiko Carstens
2010-03-08 23:39         ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-09  7:09           ` Heiko Carstens
2010-03-09  7:16             ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-08 19:06   ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-08 23:22     ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-08 15:53 ` [PATCH 3/4] scheduler: replace migration_thread with cpuhog Tejun Heo
2010-03-08 15:53 ` [PATCH 4/4] scheduler: kill paranoia check in synchronize_sched_expedited() Tejun Heo
2010-03-10 19:25 ` [PATCHSET] cpuhog: implement and use cpuhog Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-12  3:13   ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-29  6:46     ` Rusty Russell
2010-03-29  9:11     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-02  5:45       ` Tejun Heo
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-03-17  8:40 [PATCHSET sched/core] cpuhog: implement and use cpuhog, take#2 Tejun Heo
2010-03-17  8:40 ` [PATCH 2/4] stop_machine: reimplement using cpuhog Tejun Heo

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