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From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
To: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
	"kexec@lists.infradead.org" <kexec@lists.infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Mitchell, Lisa (MCLinux in Fort Collins)" <lisa.mitchell@hp.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	bhelgaas@google.com, Jingbai Ma <jingbai.ma@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [Help Test] kdump, x86, acpi: Reproduce CPU0 SMI corruption issue after unsetting BSP flag
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 19:59:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a2ff8170-41ad-42f6-9015-850dbe14983d@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5211831B.6090704@jp.fujitsu.com>




>
>Sorry Eric, I'm not clear to what you mean by ``short one core''...
>Which are you suggesting? Disabling BSP if crash happens on AP is
>reasonable?
>Or restricting cpus to a single one only just as the current kdump
>configuration is reasonable?

I am suggesting we start every cpu except the BSP from the AP we started on.

N-1 cpus seems like a good tradeoff between performance and reliability for those who need it.

Eric


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  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-19  3:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-06  9:19 [Help Test] kdump, x86, acpi: Reproduce CPU0 SMI corruption issue after unsetting BSP flag HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-08-06 16:25 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-08-07 10:05   ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-08-13 10:55 ` Jingbai Ma
2013-08-14  9:13   ` Jingbai Ma
2013-08-14 19:45     ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-08-19  2:29       ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-08-19  2:59         ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2013-08-19  9:13           ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-08-19 13:46           ` Petr Tesarik
2013-08-20  3:13             ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-08-19  1:57     ` HATAYAMA Daisuke

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