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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add hypercall interface for cpu online/o

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add hypercall interface for cpu online/offline
From: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:34:58 +0200
Cc: "Shan, Haitao" <haitao.shan@xxxxxxxxx>, Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Please rename offline to poweroff and use offline for
de-coupling the physical CPU from the Xen scheduler only.
This is useful for machine check handling.

Christoph


On Monday 22 September 2008 10:48:17 Keir Fraser wrote:
> Should be a sysctl. platform_ops are for things we want controlled by,
> typically, dom0 kernel. This will be controlled from tools.
>
>  -- Keir
>
> On 22/9/08 09:45, "Shan, Haitao" <haitao.shan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi, Keir,
> >
> > These two little patches will add a hypercall interface for cpu
> > online/offline.
> > Currently, I add it to Xen platform ops hypercall. I am not sure whether
> > it is the proper place to hold this. So, any comments or preference from
> > you? Thanks.



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