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From: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com>
To: "Gautham R. Shenoy" <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/1] pseries/hotplug: Change the default behaviour of
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"Gautham R. Shenoy" <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> This is the v2 of the fix to change the default behaviour of
> cede_offline.

OK, but why keep the cede offline behavior at all? Can we remove it? I
think doing so would allow us to remove all the code that temporarily
onlines threads for partition migration.