On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Well, the fact indisputable fact is that there is a demand for this. It's > > not about one machine, it's about scheduling dowtimes of datacentres. > > The changelog says: > > > ... A patch can remain in the > > transition state indefinitely, if any of the tasks are stuck in the > > previous universe. > > Therefore there is no scheduling anything. Without timeliness guarantees > you can't make a schedule. > > Might as well just reboot, at least that's fairly well guaranteed to > happen.
All running (reasonably alive) tasks will be running patched code though. You can't just claim complete victory (and get ready for accepting another patch, etc) if there is a long-time sleeper that hasn't been converted yet. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
