Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/8] netback: don't bind kthread to cpu

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 20:51 +0000, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 04:00:02PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> > The initialization process makes an assumption that the online cpus are
> > numbered from 0 to xen_netbk_group_nr-1,  which is not always true.
> 
> And xen_netbk_group_nr is num_online_cpus()?
> 

Yes.

> So under what conditions does this change? Is this when the CPU hotplug
> is involved and the CPUs go offline? In which case should there be a

Yes, the hotplug path.

> CPU hotplug notifier to re-bind the workers are appropiate?
> 
> > 
> > As we only need a pool of worker threads, simply don't bind them to specific
> > cpus.
> 
> OK. Is there another method of doing this? Are there patches to make the 
> thread
> try to be vCPU->guest affinite?
> 

No, not at the moment.


Wei.


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