[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add hypercall to expose physical CPU in xen hypervisor

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/11/2009 08:20, "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This patch add hypercall to xen hypervisor to expose physical CPU information.
> It also make some changes to current cpu online/offline logic:
> 1) Firstly, cpu online/offline will trigger a vIRQ to dom0 for status changes
> notification.
> 2) It also add an interface to platform operation to online/offline physical
> CPU. Currently the cpu online/offline interface is in sysctl, which can't be
> triggered in kernel. With this change, it is possible to trigger cpu
> online/offline in dom0 through sysfs interface.

Is this and the accompanying Linux patch something that people really want?

The new platform hypercall will never be changeable for compatibility
reasons and looks kinda... arbitrary.

Personally I'd rather not take it.

 -- Keir



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