On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:16:22 +0530 Dipankar Sarma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The plan is, I hope, to rip it all out and do freeze_processes() on the > > hotplug side, so nobody else needs to worry about cpu hotplug any more. > > But at present everyone seems to be in hiding. > > This would be ideal. However, we don't seem to have any momentum > on this. There's no point in expending effort on a fancy new lock until this option has been eliminated, so yeah, things are stuck. > The other thing we would need to do in this case is to > check if all the users of cpu hotplug can tolerate a very slow > hotplug step if there are 10s of thousands of processes and threads. Yes, that needs evaluation. If it's a problem then we might need to introduce a more sophisticated user interface which enables userspace to take multiple CPUs online and offline in a single step, rather than one-at-a-time. I expect that'd be fairly straightforward. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
