Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:17:45 -0700 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC patch 2/5] smpboot: Provide infrastructure for percpu hotplug threads |
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On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 09:02:55PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:00:54AM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > /* Now call notifier in preparation. */ > > > cpu_notify(CPU_ONLINE | mod, hcpu); > > > + smpboot_unpark_threads(cpu); > > > > OK, RCU must use the lower-level interfaces, given that one of > > then CPU_ONLINE notifiers might invoke synchronize_rcu(). > > We can start the threads before the notifiers. There is no > restriction.
Sounds very good in both cases!
Thanx, Paul
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