Re: CPU hotplug on i386

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Mar 16 2005 - 19:13:36 EST


Hi!

> > > I tried to solve long-standing uglyness in swsusp cmp code by calling
> > > cpu hotplug... only to find out that CONFIG_CPU_HOTPLUG is not
> > > available on i386. Is there way to enable CPU_HOTPLUG on i386?
> >
> > i386 cpu hotplug has been in -mm for a while. Don't know when (if
> > ever) it will get merged.
>
> Thanks a lot for this hint! ;-)
>
> Pavel, I've ported the basic i386 CPU hotplug stuff, without the sysfs
> interface, to x86-64 (a cut'n'paste kind of work, mostly). For now, I've
> made HOTPLUG_CPU on x86-64 depend on SMP and SOFTWARE_SUSPEND and be set
> automatically.
>
> I'm going to test it together with your patch tomorrow.

Hey, don't count on my patch. It is first shot, never tested.

Pavel
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