Re: [Xen-devel] poweroff in 3.2 and 3.3

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 20/11/08 08:21, "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> If Xen itself itself is now robust to VCPUs still being
>> runnable/running
>> then I'm fine with warnings only. If Xen isn't, then forceful
>> pausing is
>> still needed (perhaps with some warnings in addition).
>> 
> 
> what do you mean by "xen itself is robust to..."?

It used to be the case that Xen CPU hotplug depended on CPUs alreayd being
idle. It would just go horribly wrong if non-idle VCPUs were still running.

 -- Keir
 



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