Re: [PATCH v2 7/11] Use stop machine to update cpu maps

2013-04-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 13:22 -0500, Nathan Fontenot wrote: > Agreed, having to call stop_machine() for each cpu that gets updated is > pretty brutal. The plus side is that PRRN events should a rare occurrence > and not cause too much pain. So that doesn't happen on VPHN changes ? > The current d

Re: [PATCH v2 7/11] Use stop machine to update cpu maps

2013-04-05 Thread Nathan Fontenot
On 04/03/2013 11:46 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 01:58:04PM -0500, Nathan Fontenot wrote: >> From: Jesse Larrew >> >> The new PRRN firmware feature allows CPU and memory resources to be >> transparently reassigned across NUMA boundaries. When this happens, the >> kernel must

Re: [PATCH v2 7/11] Use stop machine to update cpu maps

2013-04-03 Thread Paul Mackerras
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 01:58:04PM -0500, Nathan Fontenot wrote: > From: Jesse Larrew > > The new PRRN firmware feature allows CPU and memory resources to be > transparently reassigned across NUMA boundaries. When this happens, the > kernel must update the node maps to reflect the new affinity >