From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Jesse Larrew <jlarrew@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: markn@au1.ibm.com, pmac@au1.ibm.com, tbreeds@au1.ibm.com,
lkessler@us.ibm.com, mjwolf@us.ibm.com,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 2/3] powerpc: Poll VPA for topology changes and update NUMA maps
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 08:54:36 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1291240476.32570.397.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CF6C32A.8000801@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 16:50 -0500, Jesse Larrew wrote:
>
> Hmmm... Good point. That would eliminate a lot of complexity, and if
> we wrap the code in the timer interrupt so that it only executes on
> systems with the VPHN feature, then partition migration pretty much
> takes care of itself as well. :) I'll repost this patch set with the
> tweaks that you mentioned above, then I'll post a separate patch to
> remove the cpumask and timer.
Right. First fixup that patch and we can merge that, then we can look at
the "better approach" as a separate step.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-01 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-09 23:24 [PATCH V2 0/3][RFC] Add Support for Virtual Processor Home Node (VPHN) Jesse Larrew
2010-11-09 23:24 ` [PATCH V2 1/3] powerpc: Add VPHN firmware feature Jesse Larrew
2010-11-09 23:25 ` [PATCH V2 2/3] powerpc: Poll VPA for topology changes and update NUMA maps Jesse Larrew
2010-11-29 3:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-12-01 21:50 ` Jesse Larrew
2010-12-01 21:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2010-11-09 23:25 ` [PATCH V2 3/3] powerpc: Disable VPHN polling during a suspend operation Jesse Larrew
2010-11-10 0:58 ` Michael Ellerman
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