Re: [PATCH] cpu hotplug issue

Jan Kiszka
2011-07-21T12:40:04Z

On 2011-07-21 14:18, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 07/21/2011 02:55 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>>
>>> CPU hotplug for Linux suppose to be easy (with allow_hotplug patch
>>> applied). But we have two bugs currently. One is that ACPI interrupt
>>
>> I bet we have multiple bugs for quite a while now, which accelerated bit
>> rotting even further.
>>
>
> kvm-autotest to the rescue!

CPU hotplug primarily suffers from lacking integration with QEMU
(hotpluggable CPU bus, qdev'ified CPUs to enable "device_add/del cpu",
and all that upstream). That needs to be finally solved, then regression
testing will indeed be very important.

Jan

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