Re: [PATCH] arm64: smp: Add support for cpu park

2021-01-07 Thread Mark Rutland
On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 01:23:17PM +0800, Sang Yan wrote: > Introducing a feature of CPU PARK in order to save time > of cpus down and up during kexec, which may cost 250ms of > per cpu's down and 30ms of up. Where is that 250ms spent? Is that mostly in FW, or in the kernel preparing/monitoring

[PATCH] arm64: smp: Add support for cpu park

2020-12-18 Thread Sang Yan
Introducing a feature of CPU PARK in order to save time of cpus down and up during kexec, which may cost 250ms of per cpu's down and 30ms of up. As a result, for 128 cores, it costs more than 30 seconds to down and up cpus during kexec. Think about 256 cores and more. CPU PARK is a state that