Re: [PATCH 3/3] PowerPC/mpc85xx: Add hotplug support on E6500 cores

From: Chenhui Zhao
Date: Thu Aug 06 2015 - 00:32:31 EST




On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Scott Wood <scottwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2015-08-05 at 19:08 +0800, Chenhui Zhao wrote:
On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 8:22 AM, Scott Wood <scottwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-07-31 at 17:20 +0800, b29983@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> > + /*
> > + * If both threads are offline, reset core to start.
> > + * When core is up, Thread 0 always gets up first,
> > + * so bind the current logical cpu with Thread 0.
> > + */
> > + if (hw_cpu != cpu_first_thread_sibling(hw_cpu)) {
> > + int hw_cpu1, hw_cpu2;
> > +
> > + hw_cpu1 = get_hard_smp_processor_id(primary);
> > + hw_cpu2 = get_hard_smp_processor_id(primary +
> > 1);
> > + set_hard_smp_processor_id(primary, hw_cpu2);
> > + set_hard_smp_processor_id(primary + 1,
> > hw_cpu1);
> > + /* get new physical cpu id */
> > + hw_cpu = get_hard_smp_processor_id(nr);
>
> NACK as discussed in http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/454944/
>
> -Scott

You said,

There's no need for this. I have booting from a thread1, and having
it
kick its thread0, working locally without messing with the hwid/cpu
mapping.

I still have questions here. After a core reset, how can you boot
Thread1
of the core first. As I know, Thread0 boots up first by default.

So the issue isn't that thread1 comes up first, but that you *want* thread1
to come up first and it won't. I don't think this remapping is an acceptable
answer, though. Instead, if you need only thread1 to come up, start the
core, have thread0 start thread1, and then send thread0 into whatever waiting
state it would be in if thread1 had never been offlined.

-Scott

Remapping is a concise solution. what's the harm of it?
Keeping things simple is good in my opinion.

-Chenhui



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