On 11/21/2012 02:24 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 11/21/2012 11:19 AM, Sasha Levin wrote: >>> >>> So, are there any mptables platforms which support hotplug? If the >>> answer is "KVM" then the answer is that KVM needs to move to ACPI to get >>> the proper functionality; putting a hack in is really not okay. >> >> There are no platforms which support actual hotplug, but you can still set >> existing processors as disabled in the table and without this patch there's >> no way enable them. >> >> I'm not sure if it's a "hack" though - the presentation of hotpluggable cpus >> is the almost the same between mptable and acpi, and acpi provides a way to >> manually probe/release cpus as well. The only difference is that acpi also >> provides notifications about such events. >> >> Actually, maybe acpi should start using probe/release as well... hmm... >> > > The bottom line is that I don't want the underlying implementation to > end up with a user-visible difference... therein lies madness and lots > of bugs.
Okay, so if in the case of ACPI, 'probe' will call acpi_processor_add() and 'release' would call acpi_processor_remove() so the behaviour would be the same for both ACPI and mptables. Is this okay? Thanks, Sasha -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/