Re: [patch 1/2] add ALL_CPUS option to stop_machine_run()

From: Max Krasnyansky
Date: Mon Mar 03 2008 - 23:11:27 EST




Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 March 2008 11:30:52 Max Krasnyanskiy wrote:
>> Great. I might get some time later this week to think about this some more
>> and try things out. So if you have ideas/suggestions let me know.
>
> Hmm, might be worth making stop_machine_run take a cpumask: I balked at it
> originally, but introducing a section special case crosses the line I think.

Are you talking about a mask of which CPUs to stop ?
That's essentially what I did with the cpu_isolated_map. But as Ingo and
others pointed out it's the wrong thing to do.
Or did you mean something else ?

Max
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