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From:   Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
To:     Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
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        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/4] sched/fair: Introduce cfs_migration
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On 06/11/21 15:40, Yafang Shao wrote:
> It seems we'd better take the patch[1] I sent several weeks back.
>
> [1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210615121551.31138-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com/
>

As Peter stated in that thread, this only reduces the race window and
doesn't eliminate it. The FIFO-1 smpboot idea is still a good one IMO.

> --
> Thanks
> Yafang