Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/1] pseries/hotplug: Change the default behaviour of cede_offline

From: Gautham R Shenoy <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:43:14 +0530

Hello Nathan,

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 06:03:26PM -0500, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> "Gautham R. Shenoy" <[email-masked]> writes:
> > This is the v2 of the fix to change the default behaviour of
> > cede_offline.
> 
> OK, but why keep the cede offline behavior at all? Can we remove it? I
> think doing so would allow us to remove all the code that temporarily
> onlines threads for partition migration.

May be I am missing something. But don't we want all the CPUs to come
online and execute the H_JOIN hcall before performing partition
migration? How will this change whether the offlined CPUs are in
H_CEDE or rtas-stop-self?

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Thanks and Regards
gautham.