Hi Joel, > I suggest regression testing cpu hotplug/dlpar on regular builds. I > would be happy to work with whoever is doing this on the osdl end to > explain how everything works and develop some tests. That would be me. > I've attached some > tests I had handy. Most of the other approx dozen I have are pretty > hardcoded to our test environment and need to be cleaned up to be useful > in other environments. Not that these are cleaned up either, but they > should work. The tests as written require 4 virtual cpus. They are > also designed to be run in pairs. They should run on other > architectures fine. Are these publically available somewhere? If not, I can find somewhere to put them. > As for memory hotplug on ppc64 even compile and boot testing would be a > good start until things restabalize. The current -mhp tree needs a hack > from Mike to even boot properly. We can then add on incremental tests > as they would be useful. I've started putting patches into PLM for compile tests. Can you forward these fixes on? We'll have an OpenServer 720 system available shortly. Mark
