Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 10 Oct 2003 11:50:07 -0400 | From | Mark Mielke <> | Subject | Re: 2.7 thoughts |
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On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 08:01:22AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 10:48:37AM -0400, Mark Mielke wrote: > > Perhaps I've naive here, but - with hot-pluggable CPU machines, do you not > > de-activate the CPU through software first, before pulling the CPU out, at > > which point it is not in use? > Well, you deleted my reply, but never mind that.
I wasn't responding to you. You're article just happened to be the one that I pushed 'g' to... :-)
> This obviously can't work unless the kernel gets some kind of warning. > Userspace and kernel register state, once lost that way, can't be > recovered, and if tasks are automatically suspended (e.g. cpu dumps to > somewhere and a miracle occurs), you'll deadlock if the kernel was in > a non-preemptible critical section at the time.
Again, I'm perhaps naive here - I've never been able to afford such a machine with hot-pluggable CPU's, however, I have heard from people who have used them at work, that you use software (i.e. system calls to the kernel) to instruct the kernel to no longer schedule tasks for the CPU. Once the CPU is no longer scheduled for use, you can feel free to unplug the CPU from the motherboard. Note that I didn't say that the software approach could *guarantee* immediate success. You wouldn't unplug the CPU until your had successfully deregistered the CPU from having anything scheduled for it.
Is this not the way things (should) work?
mark
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