Re: [tip:smp/hotplug] cpu/hotplug: Prevent alloc/free of irq descriptors during CPU up/down (again)

[Boris Ostrovsky]

On 08/11/2016 10:17 AM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2016-08-11 10:11:20 [-0400], Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> Are you asking why this is not using new hotplug infrastructure?
> correct.
> 
>> This should indeed be done but not as part of this series. Here we are
>> solving a specific problem and part of this is allowing PV guests use
>> the same notifier that HVM guests already do.
> 
> I have a huge a series (1285 patches to be exact) which converts the
> remaining users away and you are adding new ones.


So you must have converted Xen code already then? Can you post those
patches (not all 1285, just Xen-related, assuming there are no
dependencies) and I'll see if I can add them to this series?


> Is this patch of yours going stable?

No.

-boris