Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [PATCH] cpusets+hotplug+preepmt broken

[Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>]

Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> > The changelog leads me to believe that it was intended that the same
> > change should have been made to sched_setaffinity by now.  I think
> > it's safe to remove it; I can't see why it would be necessary any
> > more.
> 
> I recommend that we keep the lock_cpu_hotplug in sched_affinity
> unless we figure out a different way of solving the race I highlighted above
> or we ban code like that in acpi_processor_set_performance :)

Ok, thanks for the education.  I agree.

Nathan
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