Re: [PATCH] Run softirqs on proper processor on offline

[Andrew Morton]

Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ensure that we only offline the processor when it's safe and never run 
>  softirqs in another processor's ksoftirqd context. This also gets rid of 
>  the warnings in ksoftirqd on cpu offline.

I don't get it.  ksoftirqd is pinned to its cpu, so why does any of this
matter?

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