On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:00:44 -0700 Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> It's been ages since I looked at this stuff :( Although it isn't used > much, memory hotplug manages to use stop_machine() on the add/remove > (ie, "writer") side and nothing at all on the "reader" side. Is there > anything which fundamentally prevents cpu hotplug from doing the same? I would think that memory hotplug may require stop machine as all CPUs may touch that memory. But we would like to remove stomp machine from CPU hotplug. Why prevent all CPUs from running when we want to remove one? -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
