Re: [patch 2/2] sched: dynticks idle load balancing - v2

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On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 12:23:44PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:08:42 -0800

> > +int select_nohz_load_balancer(int stop_tick)
> > +{
> > +	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
> > +
> > +	if (stop_tick) {
> > +		cpu_set(cpu, nohz.cpu_mask);
> > +		cpu_rq(cpu)->in_nohz_recently = 1;
> > +
> > +		/*
> > +		 * If we are going offline and still the leader, give up!
> > +		 */
> > +		if (cpu_is_offline(cpu) && nohz.load_balancer == cpu) {
> > +			if (cmpxchg(&nohz.load_balancer,  cpu, -1) != cpu)
> 
> So we require that architectures which implement CONFIG_NO_HZ also
> implement cmpxchg.

Just use atomic_cmpxchg, please.
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