Re: [RFC PATCH 00/10] Cleanup ipi_call_lock[_irq]()/ipi_call_unlock[_irq]()

[Srivatsa S. Bhat]

On 05/29/2012 01:58 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:


> That said, is there an alternative to stop_machine on the down side?
> 
> I guess flipping the cpu offline and then doing synchronize_sched()
> should suffice.
> 


Yes I think so. Even Paul McKenney had suggested this.

Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat

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