Re: [PATCH 0/6] Support calling functions on dedicated physical cpu

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 12:59:28PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Some hardware (e.g. Dell Studio laptops) require special functions to
> be called on physical cpu 0 in order to avoid occasional hangs. When
> running as dom0 under Xen this could be achieved only via special boot
> parameters (vcpu pinning) limiting the hypervisor in it's scheduling
> decisions.

So instead of telling Dell to get their act together and fix their damn
firmware, we're going to add the most horrid gunk to the kernel? How
does that make sense?