Re: [PATCH 00/21] Initial cleanups for vCPU hotplug

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On Tue, Nov 21 2023 at 13:43, Russell King wrote:
> The majority of the other patches come from the vCPU hotplug RFC v3
> series I posted earlier, rebased on Linus' current tip, but with some
> new patches adding arch_cpu_is_hotpluggable() as the remaining
> arch_register_cpu() functions only differ in the setting of the
> hotpluggable member of the CPU device - so let's get generic code
> doing that and provide a way for an architecture to specify whether a
> CPU is hotpluggable.
>
> This patch series has been updated as best I can from the comments on
> its previous 22-patch posting, but there are some things that I have
> been unable to address (some of which go back to James' posting of
> RFC v2 of the vcpu hotplug series) due to lack of co-operation from
> either reviewers responding to my questions, or from the patch author
> providing information. I have now come to the conclusion that this
> information is never going to come, but there is still benefit to
> moving forward with this patch set. I don't expect that anyone will
> even bother to read this far down the email, so blah blah blah blah
> blah blah blah blah blah. I bet no one reads this so I don't know why
> I bother writing crud like this.

You lost your bet. I always read cover letters completely because they
tell a lot. There is correlation between the amount of blah and the
quality of the series :)

Thanks,

        tglx




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