From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935087Ab1JET2M (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2011 15:28:12 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:60971 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934271Ab1JET2M convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2011 15:28:12 -0400 Subject: RE: [PATCH 0/8] Online/offline BSP on x86 From: Peter Zijlstra To: "Yu, Fenghua" Cc: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , H Peter Anvin , "Luck, Tony" , "Mallick, Asit K" , "Siddha, Suresh B" , "Brown, Len" , linux-kernel Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:28:04 +0200 In-Reply-To: <493994B35A117E4F832F97C4719C4C040136F7CC16@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <1317832759-10223-1-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com> <1317842195.6766.40.camel@twins> <493994B35A117E4F832F97C4719C4C040136F7CC16@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.3- Message-ID: <1317842884.6766.45.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 12:22 -0700, Yu, Fenghua wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Peter Zijlstra [mailto:peterz@infradead.org] > > Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 12:17 PM > > To: Yu, Fenghua > > Cc: Ingo Molnar; Thomas Gleixner; H Peter Anvin; Zwane Mwaikambo; Luck, > > Tony; Mallick, Asit K; Siddha, Suresh B; Len Brown; linux-kernel > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Online/offline BSP on x86 > > > > On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 09:39 -0700, Fenghua Yu wrote: > > > > > > BSP or CPU0 has been the last obstacle to CPU hotplug on x86. This > > patch set > > > implements BSP online and offline and removes this obstacle to CPU > > hotplug. > > > > Are you talking about physical cpu hotplug on x86? And you need to > > offline the BSP so you can replace socket0 ? > > > This patch set is for BSP online/offline. Yes, I got that part. Why do you care?