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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 19:30:14 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] hotplug: Optimize {get,put}_online_cpus()
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On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:04:00AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> At some point I suspect that we will want some form of fairness, but in
> the meantime, good point.

I figured we could start a timer on hotplug to force quiesce the readers
after about 10 minutes or so ;-)

Should be a proper discouragement from (ab)using this hotplug stuff...

Muwhahaha
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