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From: Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>
To: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	shaohua.li@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	zwane@linuxpower.ca, vatsa@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/10] bulk cpu removal support
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 13:42:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4463A1C7.6010205@mbligh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060511102711.A15733@unix-os.sc.intel.com>

Ashok Raj wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:02:15AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
>>OK, thanks.  I'm a little surprised that this patch wasn't accompanied by a
>>problem description, really.  I mean, if a single CPU offlining takes three
>>milliseconds then why bother?
> 
> 
> It depends on whats running at the time... with some light load, i measured 
> wall clock time, i remember seeing 2 secs at times, but its been a long time
> i did that.. so take that with a pinch :-)_
> 
> i will try to get those idle and load times worked out again... the best
> i have is a  16 way, if i get help from big system oems i will send the 
> numbers out

Why is taking 30s to offline CPUs a problem?

M.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-11 20:42 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
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 [this message]
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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