Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/4] CPU online/offline support in Xen

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/9/08 11:43, "Keir Fraser" <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I feel this is more complicated than it needs to be.
> 
> How about clearing VCPUs from the offlined CPU's runqueue from the very end
> of __cpu_disable()? At that point all other CPUs are safely in softirq
> context with IRQs disabled, and we are running on the correct CPU (being
> offlined). We could have a hook into the scheduler subsystem at that point
> to break affinities, assign to different runqueues, etc. We would just need
> to be careful not to try an IPI. :-) This approach would not need a
> cpu_schedule_map (which is really increasing code fragility imo, by creating
> possible extra confusion about which cpumask is the wright one to use in a
> given situation).
> 
> My feeling, unless I've missed something, is that this would make the patch
> quite a bit smaller and with a smaller spread of code changes.

Another thought: we may (appear to) need an IPI after VCPUs have been
migrated to other runqueues. And actually that will be safe because
smp_send_event_check_cpu() is non-blocking (does not wait for the remote CPU
to run the IPI handler). So it *is* safe to do non-blocking IPIs from
stop_machine_run() context.

 -- Keir



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