Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:04:12 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: current linux-2.6.git: cpusets completely broken |
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On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > Oh, I'm not arguing. My mind is going off to an even bigger picture, where > something in the future would need to stop migration to a particular CPU, > and that it could simply clear the bit and call synchronize_sched. The run > queue lock is only visible to the scheduler. Sorry, I may have been day > dreaming out loud ;-)
Well, you'd be stuck right now anyway.
At least in my trivial patch, the cpu_active_map locking is protected by 'cpu_add_remove_lock' which is static to cpu.c. The only thing that modifies it (apart from the initial setup before SMP has been brought up) is the hotplug code.
Linus
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