Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263858AbUDFPCN (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Apr 2004 11:02:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263854AbUDFPCN (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Apr 2004 11:02:13 -0400 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.106]:24523 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263866AbUDFPB5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Apr 2004 11:01:57 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 20:33:03 +0530 From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri To: Ingo Molnar Cc: rusty@au1.ibm.com, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lhcs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Experimental CPU Hotplug PATCH] - Move migrate_all_tasks to CPU_DEAD handling Message-ID: <20040406150303.GA8996@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: vatsa@in.ibm.com References: <20040405121824.GA8497@in.ibm.com> <20040406072543.GA21626@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040406072543.GA21626@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 776 Lines: 22 On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 09:25:43AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > We should prefer simplicity and debuggability over cleverness of > implementation - it's not like we'll > have hotplug systems on everyone's desk in the next year or so. I felt that adding idle task to front of runqueue and thereby avoid the stop-machine overhead to a great extent is simple! Is there any complications you see arising out of this? -- Thanks and Regards, Srivatsa Vaddagiri, Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Labs, Bangalore, INDIA - 560017 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/