Re: [PATCH v3] SUPPORT: downgrade Physical CPU Hotplug to Experimental

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2023, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 11:32:22AM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > On 28.09.2023 10:32, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 04:20:04PM -0700, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > >> From: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxx>
> > >>
> > >> The feature is not commonly used, and we don't have hardware to test it,
> > >> not in OSSTest, not in Gitlab, and not even ad-hoc manually by community
> > >> members. We could use QEMU to test it, but even that it is known not to
> > >> work.
> > > 
> > > I think this last sentence is ambiguous.  QEMU ACPI CPU hotplug
> > > implementation does work AFAIK, it's Xen implementation of ACPI
> > > hotplug that explodes (or so I've been told).  I would drop or reword
> > > the "but even that it is known not to work." part of the sentence.
> > 
> > Maybe simply add "... on our end"?
> 
> WFM.

Just to be clear we are going for:

"The feature is not commonly used, and we don't have hardware to test it,
not in OSSTest, not in Gitlab, and not even ad-hoc manually by community
members. We could use QEMU to test it, but even that it is known not to
work on our end."

Can the change be done on commit?