Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Feb 2003 09:38:24 -0500 (EST) | From | Zwane Mwaikambo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][2.5] Don't wake up tasks on offline processors |
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On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > > This is the current code to migrate tasks off a dead cpu; > > looks good in principle, but to avoid races i'd rather suggest to lock > _all_ runqueues in one big swoop, and then just move everything as > apropriate. It's not like this code has to be highly effective.
Ok i'll have a go at that instead, however how hard would it be to do a multiple lock acquisition of that magnitude on 16+ cpus?
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