Re: slab: start_cpu_timer/cache_reap CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU problems

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Tue Feb 20 2007 - 16:34:40 EST


On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Max Krasnyansky wrote:

> I agree that running the reaper on the wrong CPU is not the best way to go
> about it.
> But it seems like disabling it is even worse, unless I missing something. ie
> wasting
> memory.

Disabling during shutdown is no problem because the per cpu caches are
going to be drained anyways by the cpu down code.
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