Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] Replace per-subsystem mutexes with get_online_cpus

2007-10-21 Thread Gautham R Shenoy
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 03:39:17PM +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 10/16, Gautham R Shenoy wrote: > > > > This patch converts the known per-subsystem cpu_hotplug mutexes to > > get_online_cpus put_online_cpus. > > It also eliminates the CPU_LOCK_ACQUIRE and CPU_LOCK_RELEASE hotplug > > notificatio

Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] Replace per-subsystem mutexes with get_online_cpus

2007-10-21 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 10/16, Gautham R Shenoy wrote: > > This patch converts the known per-subsystem cpu_hotplug mutexes to > get_online_cpus put_online_cpus. > It also eliminates the CPU_LOCK_ACQUIRE and CPU_LOCK_RELEASE hotplug > notification events. Personally, I like the changes in workqueue.c very much, a coupl

[RFC PATCH 3/4] Replace per-subsystem mutexes with get_online_cpus

2007-10-16 Thread Gautham R Shenoy
This patch converts the known per-subsystem cpu_hotplug mutexes to get_online_cpus put_online_cpus. It also eliminates the CPU_LOCK_ACQUIRE and CPU_LOCK_RELEASE hotplug notification events. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/notifier.h |4 +--- kernel/cp