From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>, Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>,
Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>,
"rusty@rustcorp.com.au" <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Bulk CPU Hotplug (Was Re: [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.)
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:39:51 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5167A52F.6020503@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130412053718.GC3887@gmail.com>
On 04/12/2013 11:07 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> wrote:
>
>> For the v3.9 release, can we consider my awful patch?
>
> How about trying what I suggested, to make reboot affine to the boot CPU
> explicitly, not by shutting down all the other CPUs, but by set_cpus_allowed() or
> so?
>
I agree, that sounds like the right thing to do for 3.9. Of course, it would be
nice if Shawn could verify that doing that doesn't break his platform due to
some unknown corner case.
> That should solve the regression, without the ugly special-casing - while giving
> time to address the hot-unplug performance bottleneck.
>
> Once that is done disable_nonboot_cpus() can be used again for reboot.
>
> (But no strong feelings either way - both solutions are a workaround in a sense.)
>
Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-12 6:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-03 19:37 [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu Robin Holt
2013-04-08 15:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-04-08 16:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-08 16:59 ` Robin Holt
2013-04-10 11:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-04-10 14:01 ` Robin Holt
2013-04-10 15:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-04-10 15:29 ` Russ Anderson
2013-04-10 16:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-04-10 17:14 ` Robin Holt
2013-04-10 17:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-04-10 17:55 ` Robin Holt
2013-04-10 19:00 ` Robin Holt
2013-04-11 8:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-04-11 11:34 ` Robin Holt
2013-04-11 12:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-04-11 12:03 ` Robin Holt
2013-04-11 12:08 ` Robin Holt
2013-04-11 12:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-04-10 17:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-10 23:02 ` Russ Anderson
2013-04-10 22:29 ` Russ Anderson
2013-04-11 5:31 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-04-11 12:45 ` Bulk CPU Hotplug (Was Re: [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.) Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-04-11 13:48 ` Robin Holt
2013-04-12 5:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-04-12 6:09 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat [this message]
2013-04-12 9:31 ` Robin Holt
2013-04-12 10:01 ` Robin Holt
2013-04-13 16:30 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-04-15 16:04 ` Robin Holt
2013-04-15 16:09 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-04-15 16:10 ` Robin Holt
2013-04-13 17:01 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-04-15 10:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-04-15 12:02 ` Robin Holt
2013-04-15 15:59 ` Robin Holt
2013-04-16 9:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-04-11 14:23 ` Russ Anderson
2013-04-11 14:45 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-04-11 20:08 ` Russ Anderson
2013-04-11 20:17 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-04-11 21:08 ` Robin Holt
2013-04-08 16:54 ` [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu Robin Holt
2013-04-08 17:07 ` Russ Anderson
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