Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:25:00 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Redesign cpu_hotplug locking. |
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On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:05:25 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote: > > > I personally doubt that it's the case that we'd want to accelerate > > inclusion - very few things actually do CPU hotplug, and right now the > > only way to even hit the sequences in normal use is literally just the > > "suspend under SMP" case that hasn't historically worked very well > > anyway, but was what made at least me personally aware of the problems > > ;^). > > there's also bootup on SMP that is technically a series of hot-cpu-add > events. That already tests some aspects of it. Maybe we should turn > shutdown into the logical reverse: into a series of hot-cpu-remove > events? >
Would be logical, but we would want to avoid making CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU a requirement for SMP. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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