On Sat, 7 Aug 2021 09:20:57 +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> On PowerVM, CPU-less nodes can be populated with hot-plugged CPUs at
> runtime. Today, the IPI is not created for such nodes, and hot-plugged
> CPUs use a bogus IPI, which leads to soft lockups.
>
> We can not directly allocate and reque
On 8/7/21 9:20 AM, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> On PowerVM, CPU-less nodes can be populated with hot-plugged CPUs at
> runtime. Today, the IPI is not created for such nodes, and hot-plugged
> CPUs use a bogus IPI, which leads to soft lockups.
>
> We can not directly allocate and request the IPI on de
> I forgot to add that this version does break irqbalance anymore, since
... does not break ...
Sorry for the noise,
> Linux is not mapping interrupts of CPU-less nodes.
>
> Anyhow, irqbalance is now fixed :
>
>
> ht
* C?dric Le Goater [2021-08-07 09:20:57]:
> On PowerVM, CPU-less nodes can be populated with hot-plugged CPUs at
> runtime. Today, the IPI is not created for such nodes, and hot-plugged
> CPUs use a bogus IPI, which leads to soft lockups.
>
> We can not directly allocate and request the IPI on d
On 07/08/2021 09:20, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> On PowerVM, CPU-less nodes can be populated with hot-plugged CPUs at
> runtime. Today, the IPI is not created for such nodes, and hot-plugged
> CPUs use a bogus IPI, which leads to soft lockups.
>
> We can not directly allocate and request the IPI on
On PowerVM, CPU-less nodes can be populated with hot-plugged CPUs at
runtime. Today, the IPI is not created for such nodes, and hot-plugged
CPUs use a bogus IPI, which leads to soft lockups.
We can not directly allocate and request the IPI on demand because
bringup_up() is called under the IRQ spa
