Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:00:13 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        tkhai@yandex.ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/core: Create new task with twice disabled
 preemption
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On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 07:51:56PM +0400, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> For archs without __ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW set this means
> that all newly created tasks execute finish_arch_post_lock_switch()
> and post_schedule() with preemption enabled.

That's IA64 and MIPS; do they have a 'good' reason to use this?

That is; the alternative is to fix those two archs and remove the
__ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW clutter alltogether; which seems like a big
win to me.


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