Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 May 2014 20:48:08 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] CPU hotplug: Slow down hotplug operations |
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On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 08:29:30PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sun, 11 May 2014, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Well. If you add the delay, you'll mask real problems and cause regressions when > > the delay is removed -- because fix-hotplug will probably take time to get right. > > > > Bad idea, AFAICT. > > Agreed, but Boris is right, that the current duct tape hackery needs > to stop. And the delay was the desperate attempt to wake up people to > focus on replacing the current mess instead of making it more > entangled.
I think Pavel is missing the point: the delay will be removed with the rewrite of cpu hotplug, after it actually works reliably. Then we won't need delay anyway.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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