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



On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 13:56 +0000, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 01:30:10PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> ?
> Can't that option be explored?

Thinking about it. Should be doable.


Wei.


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