Re: 2.7 thoughts

[Tim Hockin]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 11:29:09AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> I think there is some generalized cpu hotplug stuff that's gone in that
> direction already, though I don't know any details. The bits about non-
> cooperative offlining were very interesting to hear, though.

I spoke with Rusty about it at OLS.  I haven't tracked the hotplug CPU
projects.  I think that TASK_UNRUNNABLE is the sane way to handle said edge
case, but at the time Rusty was leaning towards SIGPOWER.


-- 
Notice that as computers are becoming easier and easier to use,
suddenly there's a big market for "Dummies" books.  Cause and effect,
or merely an ironic juxtaposition of unrelated facts?

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