On Tuesday 12 February 2008 15:10, Max Krasnyansky wrote:

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> Rusty - Stop machine.
>    After doing a bunch of testing last three days I actually downgraded
> stop machine changes from [highly experimental] to simply [experimental].
> Pleas see this thread for more info:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120243837206248&w=2 Short story is that
> I ran several insmod/rmmod workloads on live multi-core boxes with stop
> machine _completely_ disabled and did no see any issues. Rusty did not get
> a chance to reply yet, I hopping that we'll be able to make "stop machine"
> completely optional for some configurations.

stop machine is used for more than just module loading and unloading.
I don't think you can just disable it.
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