Re: [PATCH] sched/kthread: Complain loudly when others violate ourflags

[Tejun Heo]

Hello, Peter.

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:34:59AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 21:14 -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > It's rather complicated due to the way workqueues have been used.  You
> > can't tell whether a work really needs to be pinned to one cpu for
> > correctness until actual cpu hotplug time as wq users are expected to
> > flush such work items from hotplug notifiers, so wq workers should be
> > pinned on the respective cpus while the cpus are up but also need to
> > step aside once unplug notifiers are finished. 
> 
> That really is crack, and I've always said so.
> 
> How about we fix that utter workqueue unplug nightmare..

The patch is corrupt (=20/=3D's).  Can you please re-send?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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