>>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. Great! > > >>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. They are not available publicly (except this email was sent to a public list, which probably maintains archives). If need be I can put them somewhere as well. > > >>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. I would be happy to forward and track to inclusion any kernel fixes that result from any testing. However, these fixes will eventually end up in the -mhp tree so you may want to skip the middle man and mail the memory hotplug mailing list directly. > > Mark >
