linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 4/7] x86/hyper-v: redirect reenlightment notifications on CPU offlining

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Date:   Tue, 16 Jan 2018 19:31:58 +0100 (CET)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        "Michael Kelley (EOSG)" <Michael.H.Kelley@...rosoft.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Mohammed Gamal <mmorsy@...hat.com>,
        Cathy Avery <cavery@...hat.com>,
        Roman Kagan <rkagan@...tuozzo.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...uxdriverproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/7] x86/hyper-v: redirect reenlightment notifications
 on CPU offlining

On Tue, 16 Jan 2018, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:

> It is very unlikely for CPUs to get offlined when we run on Hyper-V as
> we have a protection in vmbus module which prevents it when we have any
> VMBus devices assigned. This, however,  may change in future if an option
> to reassign an already active channel will be added. It is also possible
> to run without any Hyper-V devices of have a CPU with no assigned channels.
> 
> Reassign reenlightenment notifications to some other active CPU when
> the CPU which is assigned to get them goes offline.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>