Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:35:57 -0400 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: 2.7 thoughts |
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Mark Mielke wrote:
> 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?
Note that if you're doing this for high availability purposes, you already need to have some way of handling a cpu that just dies in the middle of processing. Once you've done that, you can just re-use that to handle hot removal--it just gets treated like a fault. This is not to say that you can't try and shut it down nicely first, but its not a hard requirement.
Chris
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