Re: [patch 1/2] add ALL_CPUS option to stop_machine_run()

[Ingo Molnar]

* Max Krasnyanskiy <maxk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> -allow stop_mahcine_run() to call a function on all cpus. Calling 
>> stop_machine_run() with a 'ALL_CPUS' invokes this new behavior.
>>  stop_machine_run() proceeds as normal until the calling cpu has 
>>  invoked 'fn'. Then, we tell all the other cpus to call 'fn'.
>
> Jason, we're actually trying to reduce the usage of the stop_machine 
> in general. [...]

please talk in your own name. Stop-machine is a very elegant tool that 
simplifies a lot of hard things in the kernel and is reasonably fast as 
well. We've just recently added two new usages of it and more are 
planned.

_you_ might be the one who wants to 'reduce the usage of stop_machine' - 
but that means it is _you_ who first has to convert a number of very 
difficult pieces of code to "something else".

	Ingo
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