Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:05:25 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Redesign cpu_hotplug locking. |
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* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> I personally doubt that it's the case that we'd want to accelerate > inclusion - very few things actually do CPU hotplug, and right now the > only way to even hit the sequences in normal use is literally just the > "suspend under SMP" case that hasn't historically worked very well > anyway, but was what made at least me personally aware of the problems > ;^).
there's also bootup on SMP that is technically a series of hot-cpu-add events. That already tests some aspects of it. Maybe we should turn shutdown into the logical reverse: into a series of hot-cpu-remove events?
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