On 02/22/2013 06:01 AM, Rusty Russell wrote: > "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.b...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes: >> Hi, >> >> This patchset removes CPU hotplug's dependence on stop_machine() from the CPU >> offline path and provides an alternative (set of APIs) to preempt_disable() >> to >> prevent CPUs from going offline, which can be invoked from atomic context. >> The motivation behind the removal of stop_machine() is to avoid its >> ill-effects >> and thus improve the design of CPU hotplug. (More description regarding this >> is available in the patches). > > If you're doing a v7, please put your benchmark results somewhere! >
Oh, I forgot to put them in v6! Thanks for reminding :-) And yes, I'll have to do a v7 to incorporate changes (if any) to the new code that went in during this merge window. > The obvious place is in the 44/46. > Ok, will add it there. Thank you! Regards, Srivatsa S. Bhat _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
