Re: [PATCH] fix dynticks for voyager

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Tue May 01 2007 - 20:26:33 EST


Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 11:38:51AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
>
>> As usual voyager tripped over an explicit boot CPU is zero assumption in
>> the dynticks code. This is the fix I have queued in the voyager tree.
>>
>
> Can we flush out all these assumptions by adding a constant offset
> somewhere? Or reversing the ordering?
>

My understanding is that the boot CPU is random depending on who wins
the "I get to boot" bunfight.

J

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