From: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
To: Sebastien Dugue <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Jean Pierre Dion <jean-pierre.dion@bull.net>,
Will Schmidt <will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com>,
Gilles Carry <Gilles.Carry@ext.bull.net>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Fix cpu hotplug hang
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:17:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081230001729.GD6958@localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081215123128.172b21be@bull.net>
Sebastien Dugue wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:09:07 +0100 Sebastien Dugue <sebastien.dugue@bull.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > here is a patch that fixes a CPU hotplug hang I get on a Power6
> > box. It may not be the only possible fix but it appears to be the
> > cleanest I can think of at the moment.
> >
> > Comments welcomed.
>
> Ingo, Thomas, anybody care to comment on the hang and this possible fix?
FWIW, I was able to recreate this hang with 2.6.28 on a 8-way Power5
system, and Sebastien's patch does appear to fix the problem for my
testcase, which does a few hundred offline/online operations.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-30 0:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-01 13:09 [RFC][PATCH] Fix cpu hotplug hang Sebastien Dugue
2008-12-15 11:31 ` Sebastien Dugue
2008-12-30 0:17 ` Nathan Lynch [this message]
2008-12-30 6:28 ` Ingo Molnar
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