On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 04:09:09PM -0500, Protasevich, Natalie wrote:
> >
> > > Current IA32 CPU hotplug code doesn't allow bringing up
> > processors that were not present in the boot configuration.
> > > To make existing hot plug facility more practical for physical hot
> > > plug, possible processors should be encountered during boot for
> > > potentual hot add/replace/remove. On ES7000, ACPI marks all the
> > > sockets that are empty or not assigned to the partitionas as
> > > "disabled". The patch allows arrays/masks with APIC info
> > for disabled
> > > processors to be
> >
> > This sounds like a cluge to me. The correct implementation
> > would be you would need some sysmgmt deamon or something that
> > works with the kernel to notify of new cpus and populate
> > apicid and grow cpu_present_map. Making an assumption that
> > disabled APICID are valid for ES7000 sake is not a safe assumption.
>
> Yes, this is a kludge, I realize that. The AML code was not there so far
> (it will be in the next one). I have a point here though that if the
> processor is there, but is unusable (what "disabled" means as the ACPI
> spec says), meaning bad maybe, then with physical hot plug it can
> certainly be made usable and I think it should be taken into
> consideration (and into configuration). It should be counted as possible
> at least, with hot plug, because it represent existing socket.
I think marking it as present, and considering in cpu_possible_map is perfectly
ok. But we would need more glue logic, that is if firmware marked it as
disabled, then one would expect you then run _STA and find that the CPU
is now present and functional as reported by _STA, then the CPU is onlinable.
So if _STA can work favorably in your case you can use it to override the
disabled setting at boot time which would be prefectly fine.
>
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Cheers,
Ashok Raj
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