Re: CPU attachent and detachment in a running Linux system

[Anton Blanchard <anton@linuxcare.com.au>]

 
> That's a good point and it would probably work for attachment of cpus, but
> it won't work for detachment because there are some data structures that
> need to be updated if a cpu gets detached. For example it would be nice
> to flush the per-cpu cache of the detached cpu in the slabcache. Then one
> has to think of pending tasklets for the detached cpu which should be
> moved to another cpu and then there are a lot of per-cpu data structures
> in the networking part of the kernel.. most of them seem to be for
> statistics only but I think these structures should be updated in any
> case.
> So at least for detaching it would make sense to register functions which
> will be called whenever a cpu gets detached.

I remember someone from SGI had a patch to merge all the per cpu structures
together which would make this easier. It would also save bytes especially
on machines like the e10k where we must have NR_CPUS = 64.

Anton
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