Hello,

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:33:43AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> I thought the whole deal with this patchset was to remove stop_machine
> from CPU hotplug. Why halt all CPUs just to remove one? stomp_machine()
> is extremely intrusive for the entire system, where as one CPU making
> sure all CPUs schedule isn't very intrusive at all.
> 
> I didn't think the idea of this patch set was to make CPU hotplug
> faster, just less intrusive to the system.

Yeap, removal of stop_machine is a great improvement in itself.  ISTR
mentions of hot-unplug latency but I could be mistaken.  Srivatsa, can
you please chime in on that?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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