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Re: [PATCH] memory: bail from page scrubbing when CPU is no longer online


  • To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 10:37:05 +0000
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On 28/01/2021 10:35, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Scrubbing can significantly delay the offlining (parking) of a CPU (e.g.
> because of booting into in smt=0 mode), to a degree that the "CPU <n>
> still not dead..." messages logged on x86 in 1s intervals can be seen
> multiple times. There are no softirqs involved in this process, so
> extend the existing preemption check in the scrubbing logic to also exit
> when the CPU is no longer observed online.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>



 


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