On Friday, 20 April 2007 20:31, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I mean, we already have four of them (PF_NOFREEZE, PF_FROZEN, > > > > PF_FREEZER_SKIP, TIF_FREEZE), and you will need to introduce two > > > > more for the freezer-based CPU hotplug, so if yet another one is > > > > needed, that will make up almost a separate u8 field ... > > > > > > I am perfectly ok with it. But I am not sure if everybody would > > > agree to have another field in the task struct, though in this case > > > it does make sense :-) > > > > OK by me. You might want to consider making that fields's locking > > protocol be set_bit(), clear_bit(), etc rather than task_lock(). > > is OK to me too, the extra field isnt a problem.
OK, so I'll try to prepare a patch introducing it over the weekend. :-) Greetings, Rafael - 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/
