"Gautham R. Shenoy" <e...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes: > The patchset also defines a new sysfs attribute > "/sys/device/system/cpu/cede_offline_enabled" on PSeries Linux guests > to allow userspace programs to change the state into which the > offlined CPU need to be put to at runtime.
A boolean sysfs interface will become awkward if we need to add another mode in the future. What do you think about naming the attribute something like 'offline_mode', with the possible values 'extended-cede' and 'rtas-stopped'?
