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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>
Cc: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	LHCS list <lhcs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Hotplug CPU toy for i386
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:33:22 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1080189202.25555.26.camel@bach> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0403220153520.28727@montezuma.fsmlabs.com>

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 20:56, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Rusty Russell wrote:
> 
> > @@ -1035,6 +1036,10 @@ inline void smp_local_timer_interrupt(st
> >  {
> >  	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
> >
> > +	/* FIXME: Actually remove timer interrupt in __cpu_disable() --RR */
> > +	if (cpu_is_offline(cpu))
> > +		return;
> > +
> 
> We could setup an offline cpu idt with nop type interrupt stubs, this
> could also take care of the irq_stabilizing problem later on...

The problem I have with this approach is that it shouldn't be
neccessary.  Perhaps I'm overly optimistic.

I know *nothing* about i386: I'll play with stealing the PM code's
APIC suspend/resume, which I think is the Right Way to do this.

Rusty.
-- 
Anyone who quotes me in their signature is an idiot -- Rusty Russell


  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-25  4:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <405C1F42.9030901@cyberone.com.au>
2004-03-22  6:34 ` [PATCH] Hotplug CPU toy for i386 Rusty Russell
2004-03-22  9:56   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-03-25  4:33     ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2004-03-30 12:21       ` Pavel Machek

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