On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:11:08 am Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Dave Jones wrote: > > work_on_cpu()'s definition could probably use a fat comment describing > > why it sucks. > > No, it should be renamed. > > The problem is that it _sounds_ like a nice thing to do. Yeah, it used to be *faster* than the stupid mug-own-cpumask code it was supposed to replace. Then we hit all those deadlocks using keventd, and revulsion against YA per-cpu thread, and ended up with the current sucky version. Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cpufreq" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
