On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:56:00 -0400 Martine Silbermann <Martine.Silbermann@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > 5-Bryce to ask the community to see if consistent reporting > > > across architectures is important for statistics tools when > > > they account for resource additions/removals (e.g. SAR:cpu > > > remove causes cpu reported with zero interrupts in one case, > > > where cpu is not reported at all in another. Is this OK?). > > > > I don't really understand the purpose of this AR. > > Shouldn't the question here be: in the case where the cpu is still > reported with zero interrupts did the CPU removal code execute properly > all the way? or is there a final step in the removal code missing for > that architecture? (that is of course assuming that we use the exact > same version of SAR on both archs). The message here is the kind of thing I had in mind. Looks like Nathan has verified it across the popular architectures. http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/htdig/hotplug_sig/2005-March/000274.html Mark