From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: "Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
H Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>,
"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
"Mallick, Asit K" <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>,
Arjan Dan De Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, x86 <x86@kernel.org>,
linux-pm <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 0/6] x86/cpu hotplug: Wake up offline CPU via mwait or nmi
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 21:56:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1338926175.2749.41.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F19301A16@ORSMSX104.amr.corp.intel.com>
On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 19:54 +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> My need is for RAS reasons to take a cpu offline - and since
> it is broken, I'm not going to bring it back again (at least not anytime
> soon - perhaps a service engineer will drive by in a few hours, pull out
> the broken cpu, put in a new one, and then bring that online ... but
> saving a few milli-seconds in this use case it pointless).
Right, performance is completely irrelevant in this case. In fact, the
current code should work perfectly fine for you -- except for the whole
BSP nightmare x86 has.
> Other people want to do this for power saving. They probably do care
> how fast the processor can be brought back.
They're bloody insane, or working with broken hardware.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-05 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-04 18:17 [PATCH 0/6] x86/cpu hotplug: Wake up offline CPU via mwait or nmi Fenghua Yu
2012-06-04 18:17 ` [PATCH 1/6] x86/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: Add wakeup_cpu_via_init kernel parameter help Fenghua Yu
2012-06-04 18:17 ` [PATCH 2/6] x86/head_32.S/head_64.S: Kernel entry code after waking up offline CPU via mwait or nmi Fenghua Yu
2012-06-04 18:17 ` [PATCH 3/6] x86/smpboot.c: Wake " Fenghua Yu
2012-06-04 18:58 ` Suresh Siddha
2012-06-04 19:35 ` Yu, Fenghua
2012-06-04 18:17 ` [PATCH 4/6] x86/apic_flat_64.c: Wakeup function in apic calls mwait or nmi method Fenghua Yu
2012-06-04 18:17 ` [PATCH 5/6] x86/x2apic_cluster.c: Wakeup function in x2apic_cluster " Fenghua Yu
2012-06-04 18:17 ` [PATCH 6/6] x86/x2apic_phys.c: Wakeup function in x2apic_phys " Fenghua Yu
2012-06-04 18:17 ` Fenghua Yu
2012-06-04 20:11 ` [PATCH 0/6] x86/cpu hotplug: Wake up offline CPU via mwait or nmi Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-04 20:18 ` Luck, Tony
2012-06-04 22:52 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-04 20:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-05 0:40 ` Rusty Russell
2012-06-05 1:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-06-05 7:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-05 14:17 ` Alan Stern
2012-06-05 15:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-06-05 7:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-05 16:02 ` Yu, Fenghua
2012-06-05 16:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-05 16:18 ` Yu, Fenghua
2012-06-05 16:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-05 17:44 ` Luck, Tony
2012-06-05 17:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-05 19:43 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-05 19:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-05 19:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-05 19:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-06-05 19:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-05 20:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-05 21:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-05 22:09 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-06 8:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-06 8:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-06 8:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-05 22:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-06 8:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-06 8:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-06 14:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-06 15:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-06 23:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-08 9:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-06 8:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-06 14:41 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-06 15:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-06-06 15:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-06 15:49 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-06 16:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-06-05 21:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-05 21:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-05 22:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-06 12:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-06 14:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-05 19:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-05 20:58 ` Andi Kleen
2012-06-05 21:15 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-05 21:33 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-05 23:13 ` Andi Kleen
2012-06-06 1:52 ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-06-05 18:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-05 19:54 ` Luck, Tony
2012-06-05 19:56 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-06-05 9:36 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-05 13:41 ` [PATCH] kthread: Implement park/unpark facility Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-05 14:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-05 14:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-07 0:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-10 5:40 ` Rusty Russell
2012-06-11 9:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-12 0:23 ` Rusty Russell
2012-06-05 15:35 ` [PATCH 0/6] x86/cpu hotplug: Wake up offline CPU via mwait or nmi Jiang Liu
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