Re: [PATCH 0/7] hv: CPU onlining/offlining fixes and improvements

2017-01-02 Thread Vitaly Kuznetsov
Vitaly Kuznetsov writes: > Some time ago we forbade CPU offlining for Hyper-V and this was sufficient > if you boot with all CPUs onlined. Turns out, people may want to limit the > number online CPUs by passing 'maxcpus=' kernel parameter and we hit a > crash in Hyper-V code in this case. After s

Re: [PATCH 0/7] hv: CPU onlining/offlining fixes and improvements

2016-11-28 Thread Vitaly Kuznetsov
> >> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] hv: CPU onlining/offlining fixes and improvements >> >> On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 13:48:36 +0100 >> Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: >> >> > Some time ago we forbade CPU offlining for Hyper-V and this was sufficient >> > if you bo

RE: [PATCH 0/7] hv: CPU onlining/offlining fixes and improvements

2016-11-27 Thread Dexuan Cui
> From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:step...@networkplumber.org] > Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2016 01:06 > To: Vitaly Kuznetsov > Cc: de...@linuxdriverproject.org; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; KY Srinivasan > ; Haiyang Zhang ; Dexuan Cui > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] hv: C

Re: [PATCH 0/7] hv: CPU onlining/offlining fixes and improvements

2016-11-26 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 13:48:36 +0100 Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: > Some time ago we forbade CPU offlining for Hyper-V and this was sufficient > if you boot with all CPUs onlined. Turns out, people may want to limit the > number online CPUs by passing 'maxcpus=' kernel parameter and we hit a > crash in

[PATCH 0/7] hv: CPU onlining/offlining fixes and improvements

2016-11-25 Thread Vitaly Kuznetsov
Some time ago we forbade CPU offlining for Hyper-V and this was sufficient if you boot with all CPUs onlined. Turns out, people may want to limit the number online CPUs by passing 'maxcpus=' kernel parameter and we hit a crash in Hyper-V code in this case. After some thinking, I think we may not on