From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262088AbULRK0U (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Dec 2004 05:26:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262089AbULRK0U (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Dec 2004 05:26:20 -0500 Received: from cs.earlham.edu ([159.28.230.3]:10248 "EHLO quark.cs.earlham.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262088AbULRK0Q (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Dec 2004 05:26:16 -0500 Message-ID: <41C4054D.10105@cs.earlham.edu> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 05:24:13 -0500 From: Skylar Thompson Organization: Earlham College Computer Science Department User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: krishna CC: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: What does a dead CPU means in CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU References: <41C3B5D2.70801@globaledgesoft.com> In-Reply-To: <41C3B5D2.70801@globaledgesoft.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigA16EE793A6073EF2E0163414" X-Earlham-CS-Dept-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Earlham-CS-Dept-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: skylar@cs.earlham.edu Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigA16EE793A6073EF2E0163414 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit krishna wrote: > Hi all, > > Can any one tell what is a "dead CPU" in CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU . It's a CPU that needs to be swapped out while the system is still running. Some high-end systems (Sun SPARCs and IBM POWERs come to mind) don't require a system shutdown to replace a bad CPU. -- -- Skylar Thompson (skylar@cs.earlham.edu) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ --------------enigA16EE793A6073EF2E0163414 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBxAVRsc4yyULgN4YRAj/vAJ4ySoDyQcFMo/LxxH1YFDwyS5Q09gCeKHqY YkivVVe3RatLuamPh011rBo= =SEiD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigA16EE793A6073EF2E0163414--