On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 5:16 PM Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 08:41:09AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 08, 2023 at 10:02:59AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > > Take blk-mq's knowledge into account for calculating io queues.
> > >
> > > Fix wrong queue mapping in case of kdump kernel.
> > >
> > > On arm and ppc64, 'maxcpus=1' is passed to kdump command line, see
> > > `Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst`, so num_possible_cpus()
> > > still returns all CPUs.
> >
> > That's simply broken. Please fix the arch code to make sure
> > it does not return a bogus num_possible_cpus value for these
>
In fact, num_possible_cpus is not broken.
Quote from admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu
by executing
"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online".
So maxcpus
only takes effect during system bootup.
While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
which also disables the IO APIC.
Here, as it explained, maxcpus only affects the bootup, later, extra
cpus can be online.
> That is documented in Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst.
>
> On arm and ppc64, 'maxcpus=1' is passed for kdump kernel, and "maxcpu=1"
On aarch64 and x86, nr_cpus=1 is used, while on ppc64, due to the
implementation, nr_cpus=1 can not be supported.
Thanks,
Pingfan
> simply keep one of CPU cores as online, and others as offline.
>
> So Cc our arch(arm & ppc64) & kdump guys wrt. passing 'maxcpus=1' for
> kdump kernel.
>
> > setups, otherwise you'll have to paper over it in all kind of
> > drivers.
>
> The issue is only triggered for drivers which use managed irq &
> multiple hw queues.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ming
>
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