Re: [PATCH 00/32] [RFC] nohz/cpuset: Start discussions on nohz CPUs

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 15:03 +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Nov 2012, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> > > also it would be best to sync this conceptually with the processors
> > > enabled for rcu processing.
> >
> > Processors can be disabled for rcu processing? Or are you talking about
> > Paul's new work of offloading rcu callbacks?
> 
> Yes. Paul's new work to remove rcu processing from processors. That needs
> to be synced configuration wise somehow. It does not make sense to process
> rcu callbacks on processors where the timer tick does not work anymore.

Don't worry, Paul is working with us too ;-)

-- Steve


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