[PATCH v08 0/5] powerpc/hotplug: Update affinity for migrated CPUs

Michal Suchánek msuchanek at suse.de
Tue Oct 30 06:51:27 AEDT 2018


On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 08:18:34 -0500
Michael Bringmann <mwb at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> The migration of LPARs across Power systems affects many attributes
> including that of the associativity of CPUs.  The patches in this
> set execute when a system is coming up fresh upon a migration target.
> They are intended to,
> 
> * Recognize changes to the associativity of CPUs recorded in internal
>   data structures when compared to the latest copies in the device
> tree.
> * Generate calls to other code layers to reset the data structures
>   related to associativity of the CPUs.
> * Re-register the 'changed' entities into the target system.
>   Re-registration of CPUs mostly entails acting as if they have been
>   newly hot-added into the target system.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Bringmann <mwb at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
Hello,

what is the status of this patchset other than it no longer applies?

Thanks

Michal


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