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2008 Sep 12
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[PATCH] FLush pending softirqs when cpu offline
Hi, Keir, Thanks for checking in cpu online/offline support. Another thought inspired by Kevin, due to the time sequence that different cpus enter the stop machine context, there is a small window that some kind of softirqs (say softirq_A) are issued to the dying cpu right after the dying cpu has already handled softirq_A in do_softirq before entering stop_machine softirq. So this softirq_A should be handled by the dying cpu after exiting from stop_machine context. However, scheduling to idle leaves no change for softirqs other than...