[PATCH V2 2/3] powerpc: Poll VPA for topology changes and update NUMA maps

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Dec 2 08:54:36 EST 2010


On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 16:50 -0500, Jesse Larrew wrote:
> 
> Hmmm... Good point. That would eliminate a lot of complexity, and if
> we wrap the code in the timer interrupt so that it only executes on
> systems with the VPHN feature, then partition migration pretty much
> takes care of itself as well. :) I'll repost this patch set with the
> tweaks that you mentioned above, then I'll post a separate patch to
> remove the cpumask and timer.

Right. First fixup that patch and we can merge that, then we can look at
the "better approach" as a separate step.

Cheers,
Ben.




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