Re: [RFC 07/13] sched: Reduce stack size requirements inkernel/sched.c

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Sun, 2008-09-07 at 04:00 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> make cpu_hotplug.refcount an atomic_t.

That might actually be a worthwhile idea, but it will not make
get_online_cpus() atomic. The whole point of get_online_cpus() is to
serialize against actual hotplug operations, so it will have to sleep at
some point.

Now, turning cpu_hotplug.refcount into an atomic_t might be worthwhile
because it will reduce the amount of atomic operations in its fastpath
from 2 to 1.

You'd have to make recount==1 the stable situation and use
atomic_inc_unless() and atomic_dec_and_test() in get_online_cpus() and
put_online_cpus() resp. that way !refcount can signify a hotplug
operation and we'd fall back into the slow paths.

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