From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: sam.mj@au1.ibm.com
Cc: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] powerpc/kexec: Wait 1s for secondaries to enter OPAL
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 19:58:18 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1438077498.7562.130.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55B71D89.7000308@au1.ibm.com>
On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 16:13 +1000, Samuel Mendoza-Jonas wrote:
> "It sounds reasonable" was more or less the inspiration :)
> While I was going over some of the code relating to the previous kexec
> fix with Ben he pointed this out and suggested there wasn't
> much of a reason to differentiate between a crashing/non-crashing
> cpu as far as the timeout goes - if we're not 'crashing' we still
> don't want to spin forever.
>
> I'll let Ben comment on whether 1s per cpu is enough.
Well, if the scheduler doesn't give us the CPU at the point of kexec
within a second, I think we are in pretty bad shape already, don't you
think ?
I don't mind bumping the timeout of you have worries...
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-28 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-22 5:54 [RFC PATCH] powerpc/kexec: Wait 1s for secondaries to enter OPAL Samuel Mendoza-Jonas
2015-07-27 5:56 ` Stewart Smith
2015-07-28 6:13 ` Samuel Mendoza-Jonas
2015-07-28 9:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2015-07-29 7:24 ` Stewart Smith
2015-10-12 11:21 ` [RFC] " Michael Ellerman
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