linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.

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Message-ID: <20130411053106.GA9042@drongo>
Date:	Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:31:06 +1000
From:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Robin Holt <holt@....com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Russ Anderson <rja@....com>, Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...aro.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 08:10:05AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The optimal solution would be to just speed up the
> disable_nonboot_cpus() code so much that it isn't an issue. That would
> be good for suspending too, although I guess suspend isn't a big issue
> if you have a thousand CPU's.
> 
> Has anybody checked whether we could do the cpu_down() on non-boot
> CPU's in parallel? Right now we serialize the thing completely, with

I thought Srivatsa S. Bhat had a patchset that did exactly that.
Srivatsa?

Paul.
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