Re: [Experimental CPU Hotplug PATCH] - Move migrate_all_tasks to CPU_DEAD handling

From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri
Date: Tue Apr 06 2004 - 10:04:33 EST


On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 09:25:43AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> We should prefer simplicity and debuggability over cleverness of
> implementation - it's not like we'll
> have hotplug systems on everyone's desk in the next year or so.

I felt that adding idle task to front of runqueue and thereby avoid
the stop-machine overhead to a great extent is simple! Is there any
complications you see arising out of this?

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Thanks and Regards,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri,
Linux Technology Center,
IBM Software Labs,
Bangalore, INDIA - 560017
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