Thread (72 messages) 72 messages, 8 authors, 2013-06-27

Re: [PATCH v2 15/45] rcu: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() to prevent CPU offline

From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: 2013-06-26 17:30:00
Also in: linux-arch, linux-pm, linuxppc-dev, lkml

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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