Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752376AbWKBTau (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 14:30:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752383AbWKBTau (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 14:30:50 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:3727 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752359AbWKBTat (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 14:30:49 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 11:30:20 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Dipankar Sarma cc: Andrew Morton , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel , Gautham Shenoy Subject: Re: Remove hotplug cpu crap from cpufreq. In-Reply-To: <20061102190450.GB23489@in.ibm.com> Message-ID: References: <20061101225925.GA17363@redhat.com> <20061101161723.f132d208.akpm@osdl.org> <20061102190450.GB23489@in.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 621 Lines: 18 On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Dipankar Sarma wrote: > > IMO, the right thing to do would be to convert lock_cpu_hotplug() to > a get_cpu_hotplug()/put_cpu_hotplug() type semantics and use a more > scalable implementation underneath (as opposed to a global > semaphore/mutex). Yes, I think Gautham's patch-series basically did exactly that, no? Except it kept the old name. Linus - 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/