linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3 0/4] genirq/affinity: irq vector spread among online CPUs as far as possible

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Date:   Wed, 14 Mar 2018 11:30:56 +0800
From:   Dou Liyang <douly.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
CC:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>,
        Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        Laurence Oberman <loberman@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 0/4] genirq/affinity: irq vector spread among online
 CPUs as far as possible

Hi Rafael,

Thank you so much for your reply.

At 03/13/2018 05:25 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 4:11 AM, Dou Liyang <douly.fnst@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> At 03/09/2018 11:08 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> [...]
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if there is a clear indicator whether physcial hotplug is
>>> supported or not, but the ACPI folks (x86) and architecture maintainers
>>
>> +cc Rafael
>>
>>> should be able to answer that question. I have a machine which says:
>>>
>>>      smpboot: Allowing 128 CPUs, 96 hotplug CPUs
>>>
>>> There is definitely no way to hotplug anything on that machine and sure
>>> the
>>
>>
>> AFAIK, in ACPI based dynamic reconfiguration, there is no clear
>> indicator. In theory, If the ACPI tables have the hotpluggable
>> CPU resources, the OS can support physical hotplug.
> 
> In order for the ACPI-based CPU hotplug (I mean physical, not just the
> software offline/online we do in the kernel) to work, there have to be
> objects in the ACPI namespace corresponding to all of the processors
> in question.
> 
> If they are not present, there is no way to signal insertion and eject
> the processors safely.

Yes, I see.

Thanks
	dou

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