Re: CPUFREQ-CPUHOTPLUG: Possible circular locking dependency

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Nov 30 2006 - 03:33:52 EST



* Gautham R Shenoy <ego@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So do we
> - Rethink the strategy of per-subsystem hotcpu-locks ?
>
> OR
>
> - Think of a way to straighten out the super-convoluted cpufreq code ?

i'm still wondering what the conceptual source of this fundamental
locking complexity in cpufreq (and hotplug) is - it is not intuitive to
me at all. Could you try to explain that?

Ingo
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