Re: [PATCH] lglock: make lg_lock_global() actually lock globally

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Aug 26 2010 - 06:08:26 EST


On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 19:46 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Why is that? Don't tell me realtime people want some latency "guarantee"
> while onlining CPUs? :)

I think its only done because we can, don't use kstopmachine if you
don't have to etc..

We tell people who do RT not to hotplug, not load modules etc..
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