On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 01:22:24PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I wonder if we could just make the workqueue code just run with preemption > disabled - that should also automatically protect against any CPU hotplug > events on the local CPU (and I think "local CPU" is all that the wq code > cares about, no?) __create_workqueue(), destroy_workqueue() and flush_workqueue() are all taking CPU hotplug lock currently. AFAICS they all can block and so disabling preemption wont work. What am I missing? -- Regards, vatsa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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