On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 01:52:40PM +0200, Peter Krempa wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 19:19:19 +1000, David Gibson wrote: > > The spapr implementation of query-hotpluggable-cpus builds the list of > > hotpluggable cores from the end (most removed from the list head) > > because that's the easiest way with a singly linked list. Because it > > also traverses the possible CPU cores starting from low indexes the > > resulting list has the cpu cores listed in reverse order by core-id. > > > > That's not generally harmful, but it means the output from "info > > hotpluggable-cpus" is a little harder to read than it could be. > > > > Therefore, traverse the cpus in reverse order so that the final list > > ends up in increasing-core-id order. > > To make this interface usable with in-order hotplug the ordering of the > entries should be codified in the schema documentation. (see my response > on the cover letter for justification).
I'm not really sure what you mean by this.
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