[PATCH v5 0/4] pseries: Add cede support for cpu-offline

[Vaidyanathan Srinivasan]

* Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> [2009-11-24 14:35:09]:

> On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 10:52 +0530, Gautham R Shenoy wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This is version 5 of patch series that provides a framework to choose the
> > state a pseries CPU must be put to when it is offlined.
> > 
> > Previous versions can be found here:
> > Version 4: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/9/59
> > Version 3: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/15/164
> > Version 2: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/28/102
> > Version 1: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/6/236
> > 
> > Changes from the previous version include:
> > - Rebased against Nathan Fontenot's latest "pseries kernel handling of dynamic
> >   logical paritioning v4" patches found here:
> >   http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/21/98
> 
> I can't merge them right now because afaik, Nathan patches are still not
> quite ready. So we need to either get a final version of Nathan patches
> something like tomorrow or you need to rebase your series on current
> -next by the end of the week, or I'm afraid it's going to miss the next
> merge window.

Hi Ben,

I had checked with Nathan earlier and he mentioned that he is working
on an update.  We can post a rebase to -next tomorrow, but this series
depends on Nathan's patch, hence will work with him. This feature is
important for the next merge window.

Thanks,
Vaidy