Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261996AbVBPFwb (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:52:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261997AbVBPFwb (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:52:31 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:4570 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261996AbVBPFw3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:52:29 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:51:46 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Zwane Mwaikambo Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, mingo@elte.hu, nathanl@austin.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Run softirqs on proper processor on offline Message-Id: <20050215215146.4c063baf.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20050211232821.GA14499@otto> <20050214215948.GA22304@otto> <20050215070217.GB13568@elte.hu> <20050216020628.GA25596@otto> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 573 Lines: 14 Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > Ensure that we only offline the processor when it's safe and never run > softirqs in another processor's ksoftirqd context. This also gets rid of > the warnings in ksoftirqd on cpu offline. I don't get it. ksoftirqd is pinned to its cpu, so why does any of this matter? - 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/