From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
To: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: jayush luniya <jayu_11@yahoo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HOTPLUG CPU Support for SMT
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 10:47:30 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050531051730.GA5845@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0505301050141.12903@montezuma.fsmlabs.com>
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 04:50:27PM +0000, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> Yes, older 2.6-mm kernel (2.6.10-mm) trees have the "toy" i386 hotplug
> cpu implementation which does what you want.
AFAIK in the i386 "toy" implementation, when a CPU is offlined, it stops
taking interrupts and stops running tasks, but it _still_ executes a while
loop in the context of its idle task (with IRQs disabled). The loop
is exited when we have to bring online the CPU again. What this means is
I don't think by offlining the CPU, we are removing any activity associated
with the corresponding h/w thread.
Maybe the toy implementation could be modified to take care of it? Something
like lowering the priority of the h/w thread so that it consumes minimal
CPU resources to execute its while loop.
--
Thanks and Regards,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri,
Linux Technology Center,
IBM Software Labs,
Bangalore, INDIA - 560017
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-31 5:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-30 15:25 HOTPLUG CPU Support for SMT jayush luniya
2005-05-30 16:51 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-05-31 5:17 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri [this message]
2005-05-31 14:34 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-05-30 21:30 ` Rutger Nijlunsing
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