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From: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
To: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>,
	Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/10] bulk cpu removal support
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 01:29:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060508062905.GA9344@localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1147067137.2760.77.camel@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com>

Shaohua Li wrote:
> CPU hotremove will migrate tasks and redirect interrupts off dead cpu.
> To remove multiple CPUs, we should iteratively do single cpu removal.
> If tasks and interrupts are migrated to a cpu which will be soon
> removed, then we will trash tasks and interrupts again. The following
> patches allow remove several cpus one time. It's fast and avoids
> unnecessary repeated trash tasks and interrupts. This will help NUMA
> style hardware removal and SMP suspend/resume. Comments and suggestions
> are appreciated.

Some quantification of the benefits of adding this complexity would be
appreciated.  Like, how long does it take to offline all the cpus in a
node serially, and how much faster is the bulk method?

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-08  6:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-08  5:45 [PATCH 0/10] bulk cpu removal support Shaohua Li
2006-05-08  6:29 ` Nathan Lynch [this message]
2006-05-08  7:39   ` Shaohua Li
2006-05-08  6:30 ` Ashok Raj
2006-05-11  6:06 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-11 16:53   ` Ashok Raj
2006-05-11 17:02     ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-11 17:27       ` Ashok Raj
2006-05-11 20:42         ` Martin Bligh
2006-05-11 22:09           ` Ashok Raj
2006-05-12  0:04             ` Nathan Lynch
2006-05-11 17:19     ` Nathan Lynch
2006-05-11 17:40       ` Ashok Raj
2006-05-11 19:19         ` Nathan Lynch
2006-05-11 22:17           ` Ashok Raj
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-14 20:49 Protasevich, Natalie
2006-05-14 21:28 Protasevich, Natalie

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