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Message-ID: <1bfe14e7-0742-fcae-72f7-de7874232ee1@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2021 19:37:50 +0200
From: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.ibm.com>
To: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@...ux.ibm.com>, mpe@...erman.id.au,
benh@...nel.crashing.org, paulus@...ba.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] pseries: prevent free CPU ids to be reused on another
node
Le 03/08/2021 à 18:54, Nathan Lynch a écrit :
> Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.ibm.com> writes:
>> V5:
>> - Rework code structure
>> - Reintroduce the capability to reuse other node's ids.
>
> OK. While I preferred v4, where we would fail an add rather than allow
> CPU IDs to appear to "travel" between nodes, this change is a net
> improvement.
>
> Reviewed-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@...ux.ibm.com>
>
Thanks Nathan,
Regarding the reuse of other nodes free CPU ids, with this patch the kernel does
it best to prevent that. Instead of failing adding new CPUs, I think it's better
to reuse free CPU ids of other nodes, otherwise, only a reboot would allow the
CPU adding operation to succeed.
Laurent.
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