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From: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SMP Panic caused by [PATCH] sched: consolidate sched domains
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:11:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1093893078.10143.2.camel@arrakis> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1093799808.10990.22.camel@mulgrave>

On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 10:16, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 13:07, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > I've up and downed a few CPUs on an Altix, and it seems to work ok, but that's 
> > a pretty basic test.  How about this?
> 
> Well, like I told Bill.  It's not a priori correct because now you're
> altering runtime behaviour.
> 
> It may, in fact, work because if the runtime users have an additional
> restriction to online cpus, but that's not a given ... have you audited
> the code for this?
> 
> James

Yeah, I don't think that patch will work so well, unless we're very
careful to mask the return values of node_to_cpumask() and
pcibus_to_cpumask() against cpu_online_map where appropriate.  There are
certainly callers of these function who are expecting a map containing
online cpus.

-Matt


  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-30 19:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-29 13:39 SMP Panic caused by [PATCH] sched: consolidate sched domains James Bottomley
2004-08-29 16:48 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-29 16:58   ` James Bottomley
2004-08-29 17:07     ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-29 17:16       ` James Bottomley
2004-08-30 19:11         ` Matthew Dobson [this message]
2004-08-29 17:24       ` James Bottomley
2004-08-29 17:48         ` Nathan Lynch
2004-08-29 22:59           ` James Bottomley
2004-08-29 17:03   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-29 17:09     ` James Bottomley
2004-08-29 17:22       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-29 17:29         ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-29 17:40           ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-29 17:50             ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-29 23:13               ` James Bottomley

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