Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933843AbdDSKfV (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2017 06:35:21 -0400 Received: from Galois.linutronix.de ([146.0.238.70]:56090 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933793AbdDSKfS (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2017 06:35:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 12:35:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Noam Camus cc: Peter Zijlstra , Vineet Gupta , Chris Metcalf , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "anna-maria@linutronix.de" , Eitan Rabin , "Fu, Zhonghui" Subject: RE: Reduce Linux boot time on Large scale system In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20170419074944.lacscblx2ulhfcd3@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 972 Lines: 28 On Wed, 19 Apr 2017, Noam Camus wrote: Please fix your mail client to do proper line wraps around 78 chars and proper citation. Also please trim your replies. There is no point in scrolling through 2 pages of cited mail just to get to your question. > > From: Thomas Gleixner [mailto:tglx@linutronix.de] > > There might also be interaction required with the state machine, > > i.e. stop the state progress on a self plugging CPU between two steps to > > make serialization work. > > What would be a good base to start on all above? Would some formal > release like v4.8 TAG good enough , or do I need to base on some other > specific HEAD (or TAG)? Errm, no. Development happens on Linus current tree or the particular development tree/branch of a particular subsystem. In this case git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git smp/hotplug which is empty right now, but about to be filled up again. Start against Linus HEAD for now. Thanks, tglx