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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
	Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] cpu: pseries: Cpu offline states framework
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:51:41 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1253753501.7103.358.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1253016701.5506.73.camel@laptop>

On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 14:11 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> I still think its a layering violation... its the hypervisor manager
> that should be bothered in what state an off-lined cpu is in. 
> 
That's not how our hypervisor works.

If you ask through the management interface, to remove a CPU from a
partition, the HV will communicate with a daemon inside the partition
that will then unplug the CPU via the right call.

I don't really understand your objections to be honest. And I fail to
see why it would be a layering violation to have the ability for the OS
to indicate in what state it wishes to relinguish a CPU to the
hypervisor, which more or less defines what is the expected latency for
getting it back later on.

Ben.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-24  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-15 12:06 [PATCH v3 0/3] cpu: pseries: Cpu offline states framework Gautham R Shenoy
2009-09-15 12:07 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] pSeries: cede latency specifier helper function Gautham R Shenoy
2009-09-15 14:45   ` Daniel Walker
2009-09-15 12:07 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] cpu: Offline state Framework Gautham R Shenoy
2009-09-30 17:31   ` Randy Dunlap
2009-09-15 12:07 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] cpu: Implement cpu-offline-state callbacks for pSeries Gautham R Shenoy
2009-09-15 12:11 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] cpu: pseries: Cpu offline states framework Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-15 13:21   ` Michael Ellerman
2009-09-15 14:58   ` Balbir Singh
2009-09-16  7:48     ` Heiko Carstens
2009-09-24  0:52       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-09-16 15:28   ` Dipankar Sarma
2009-09-16 15:32     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-16 16:24       ` Dipankar Sarma
2009-09-16 16:35         ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-16 17:03           ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2009-09-16 17:22             ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-16 20:17               ` Dipankar Sarma
2009-09-24  0:55         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-09-24  0:51   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2009-09-25 14:48     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-25 21:12       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-09-28 13:53         ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2009-09-28 13:51       ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2009-09-26  9:55   ` Pavel Machek

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