linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V6 0/2] powerpc/dlpar: Correct display of hot-add/hot-remove CPUs and memory

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Message-Id: <33eb7713-d75d-77ee-5326-2b9837893d0a@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed, 21 Jun 2017 09:18:44 -0500
From:   Michael Bringmann <mwb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Nathan Fontenot <nfont@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        ltc-virtual-io@...ts.linux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 0/2] powerpc/dlpar: Correct display of
 hot-add/hot-remove CPUs and memory

One of the patches was doubled and sent twice yesterday.
Will update number regardless in future.

On 06/21/2017 04:54 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Michael Bringmann <mwb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> 
>> On Power systems with shared configurations of CPUs and memory, there
>> are some issues with association of additional CPUs and memory to nodes
>> when hot-adding resources.  These patches address some of those problems.
>>
>> powerpc/hotplug: On systems like PowerPC which allow 'hot-add' of CPU
>> or memory resources, it may occur that the new resources are to be
>> inserted into nodes that were not used for these resources at bootup.
>> In the kernel, any node that is used must be defined and initialized
>> at boot.  In order to meet both needs, this patch adds a new kernel
>> command line option (numnodes=<int>) for use by the PowerPC
>> architecture-specific code that defines the maximum number of nodes
>> that the kernel will ever need in its current hardware environment.
>> The boot code that initializes nodes for PowerPC will read this value
>> and use it to ensure that all of the desired nodes are setup in the
>> 'node_possible_map', and elsewhere.
>>
>> powerpc/numa: Correct the currently broken capability to set the
>> topology for shared CPUs in LPARs.  At boot time for shared CPU
>> lpars, the topology for each shared CPU is set to node zero, however,
>> this is now updated correctly using the Virtual Processor Home Node
>> (VPHN) capabilities information provided by the pHyp. The VPHN handling
>> in Linux is disabled, if PRRN handling is present.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michael Bringmann <mwb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>
>> Michael Bringmann (2):
>>   powerpc/hotplug: Add option to define max nodes allowing dynamic
>>       growth of resources.
>>   powerpc/numa: Update CPU topology when VPHN enabled
>> ---
>> Changes in V6:
>>   -- Reorder some code to better eliminate unused functions in
>>        conditional builds.
> 
> What changed between yesterday's V6 and this V6?
> 
> If you're going to resend, please bump the version number, we have tools
> that parse the subject and version, and resending multiple times with
> the same number breaks those.
> 
> cheers
> 
> 

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