Re: [rfc patch-rt] posix_cpu_timers: Kill hotplug cpu notifier

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Fri Jan 20 2017 - 12:57:19 EST


On Fri, 2017-01-20 at 18:34 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2017-01-20 18:29:54 [+0100], Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-01-20 at 17:46 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > > On 2016-12-26 08:00:54 [+0100], Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > > Shamelessly steal softirq.c thread initialization method.
> > > What is the problem here?
> >
> > There is no problem in 4.9. I did that for upstream, thought it might
> > save someone a minute or two.
>
> I see. The subject says RT so I assumed it is somehow RT related. But as
> of now we should have this hotplug notifier removed, right?

Yeah, RT only, it adds the thread and soon to be obsolete hotplug bits.

patches/0101-posix-timers-Thread-posix-cpu-timers-on-rt.patch

-Mike