Re: [PATCH for 2.5] preemptible kernel

[Rusty Russell]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
> 
> Keith Owens writes:
>  > Or have I missed something?
> 
> Nope, it is a fundamental problem with such kernel pre-emption
> schemes.  As a result, it would also break our big-reader locks
> (see include/linux/brlock.h).

Good point: holding a brlock has to block preemption, as per spinlocks.

> Basically, anything which uses smp_processor_id() would need to
> be holding some lock so as to not get pre-empted.

When I audited the uses of smp_processor_id() for the hotplug cpu
stuff, there were surprisingly few calls to smp_processor_id(), and
most of these will be holding a brlock, so OK already.

Rusty.
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