Re: [PATCH 2/3] cpu: add a CPU_DOWN_PREPARE notifier

[Rusty Russell]

On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 22:52, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 2/3
> 
> Rusty, can I do this?
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Add a CPU_DOWN_PREPARE hotplug CPU notifier. This is needed so we can
> dettach all sched-domains before a CPU goes down, thus we can build
> domains from online cpumasks, and not have to check for the possibility
> of a CPU coming up or going down.

And if taking the CPU down fails?  If you need this, you need the
CPU_DOWN_FAILED as well, unfortunately.  Hence I prefer the "do the
domain thing while machine is frozen" and sidestep it entirely.

Rusty.
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