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* [PATCH 0/15] Review: acpi processor hotplug
@ 2008-02-22 21:34 Glauber Costa
  2008-02-22 21:34 ` [PATCH 1/15] Make a GPE register block be acessible Glauber Costa
  2008-02-24  9:44 ` [PATCH 0/15] Review: acpi processor hotplug Avi Kivity
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 22+ messages in thread
From: Glauber Costa @ 2008-02-22 21:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kvm-devel; +Cc: chrisw, marcelo, avi

Hi,

In this series, I'm sending the result-so-far of my work
with acpi for processor hotplug. I'm able to put a cpu up and down
(with the help of some udev scripts I wrote), but it still has some
known bugs and issues. For x86_64 linux machines (because the kernel
supports it), you can plug cpus that _were not_ listed initially in 
smp_cpus.

The usage is : cpu_set x (online/offline), in qemu monitor.
It will then send the proper signals to the cpu #x.

However, it is important to note that:

* there's no way to know if it suceeded. (ex, if the udev scripts are not
running, the cpu will not be put up, and you'll never know)
* there's no way to unconditionally send an add signal. (if you send BUS_CHECK again,
  and the cpu is already marked as present, it will offline it instead)

because of that, management gets a bit complicated. The ideal situation is to specify:
"I want Y cpus", and have it. Error reported in case it fails. Because of that, I _still_
advocate for an alternative virtio implementation. ACPI still plays its role in this scenario,
but not the full role.

In my TODO list, you'll find:
* fix some more issues in this code, and merge the gently comments I'm sure you'll make
* device acpi hotplug
* virtio cpu hotplug for linux (meaning refactoring the existing patch)
* occupy 24 territories.
* conquer 18 territories with at least 2 battalions on each. 

Besides a bunch of boring personal items I'm sure are not of interest to anybody here.

Thanks in advance 


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2008-02-22 21:34 [PATCH 0/15] Review: acpi processor hotplug Glauber Costa
2008-02-22 21:34 ` [PATCH 1/15] Make a GPE register block be acessible Glauber Costa
2008-02-22 21:34   ` [PATCH 2/15] mark extra cpus as present Glauber Costa
2008-02-22 21:34     ` [PATCH 3/15] introduce cpu_set to qemu monitor Glauber Costa
2008-02-22 21:34       ` [PATCH 4/15] mark processors as presents Glauber Costa
2008-02-22 21:34         ` [PATCH 5/15] provide gpe _L0x methods Glauber Costa
2008-02-22 21:34           ` [PATCH 6/15] provide operation region for pio to the gpes Glauber Costa
2008-02-22 21:34             ` [PATCH 7/15] implement method _L00 for GPE0 Glauber Costa
2008-02-22 21:34               ` [PATCH 8/15] isolate cpu initialization function in hw/pc.c Glauber Costa
2008-02-22 21:34                 ` [PATCH 9/15] initialize hot add system Glauber Costa
2008-02-22 21:34                   ` [PATCH 10/15] handle gpe data for pio Glauber Costa
2008-02-22 21:34                     ` [PATCH 11/15] manipulate the gpe bits and send sci up the os Glauber Costa
2008-02-22 21:34                       ` [PATCH 12/15] isolate cpu thread creation in qemu-kvm.c Glauber Costa
2008-02-22 21:34                         ` [PATCH 13/15] provide _MAT to acpi processor Glauber Costa
2008-02-22 21:34                           ` [PATCH 14/15] start a new cpu thread Glauber Costa
2008-02-22 21:34                             ` [PATCH 15/15] provide _EJ0 method for processor removal Glauber Costa
2008-02-24  9:33         ` [PATCH 4/15] mark processors as presents Avi Kivity
2008-02-25 14:38           ` Glauber Costa
2008-02-25 14:49             ` Avi Kivity
2008-02-25 14:43               ` Glauber Costa
2008-02-24  9:34       ` [PATCH 3/15] introduce cpu_set to qemu monitor Avi Kivity
2008-02-24  9:44 ` [PATCH 0/15] Review: acpi processor hotplug Avi Kivity

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