Re: [PATCH v2 15/45] rcu: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() toprevent CPU offline

[Tejun Heo]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:51:11AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > It would also increase the latency of CPU-hotunplug operations.
> 
> Is that a big deal?

I thought that was the whole deal with this patchset - making cpu
hotunplugs lighter and faster mostly for powersaving.  That said, just
removing stop_machine call would be a pretty good deal and I don't
know how meaningful reducing CPU hotunplug latency is.  Srivatsa?

Thanks.

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tejun
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