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SubjectRe: 2.7 thoughts
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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