Re: [PATCH][2.5] Don't wake up tasks on offline processors

Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:19:48 +0100 (CET)


On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:

> This patch stops waking up of tasks onto offline processors. We need
> this when migrating tasks from offline processors onto other online ones
> and to avert a livelock whilst doing so.

this code too should be done in a separate 'zap_runqueue()' function,
which also needs to iterate through all tasks and migrate them off to an
online CPU. This code definitely does not belong into the wakeup hotpath.

Ingo

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