[PATCH] Reorganise and then fixup the pseries cpu hotplug code
Nathan Lynch
ntl at pobox.com
Wed Nov 22 03:43:26 EST 2006
Michael Ellerman wrote:
>
> OK, it didn't occur to me that it was referring to userspace. I'll
> change it to:
>
> /*
> * Isolation and deallocation occur in userspace, so just stop the cpu.
> * If isolation and deallocation ever move from userpace to kernel space
> * we would do them here.
> */
>
> Sound OK?
I favor just dropping the comment. Offline and isolate are distinct
-- offline is a per-thread operation while isolate is per-processor.
Offlining a thread does not imply that its processor will be returned
to the hypervisor (e.g. going to single thread mode from SMT).
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