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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] relay: Add buffer-only channels; useful for early logging.
* Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu (eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro) wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:04:57 +0300
> Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
>
> > Why do we need to change for_each_online_cpu to for_each_present_cpu?
> > I guess it's because we don't have all the CPUs online at early
> > boot?
>
> Yes, that's true. Only one CPU is online at that early point.
>
> > Wouldn't it then be better to implement CPU hotplug support
> > instead?
>
> It's difficult for me to write such code, as I'm unable to test CPU
> hotplug; my machines are a Turion X2 laptop and a Athlon Barton desktop
> computer. So I can't turn off, or unplug in a software sense, one CPU core.
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see any way to do that in /sys/devices/system/cpu/
>

See Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt

If you need to "emulate" having many CPUs, Xen is always an option.

> But I suppose I could write a patch very carefully, and then submit to
> someone that can test this. Anyway, I'll look into this and try to
> understand the code without being able to test.
>

Hrm, sounds like a bad idea... please try getting a test setup working,
it will save you a gazillion iterations and let you stress-test your
code.

Mathieu

>
> Eduard
>

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