Re: [PATCH 1/9] workqueue: perform cpu down operations from lowpriority cpu_notifier()

[Tejun Heo]

Hello, Paul.

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:52:07PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > Fix it by using different priorities for up and down notifiers - high
> > priority for up operations and low priority for down operations.
> 
> Cool!!!
> 
> This certainly provides another data point in favor of running down
> notifiers in the opposite order from up notifiers.  ;-)

Yeah, I was thinking about that.  I don't think converting CPU
notifiers would take a lot of work in terms of both auditing and
converting.  We only have several priorities.

> This series passes light rcutorture/hotplug testing, will be testing
> it more.

Great!

-- 
tejun
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