Re: post-OLS pending cpufreq patches

[Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.de>]

On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 08:33:50PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 10:51:26PM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> 
>  > - [core] HT fix before CPU group support is merged
>  > 	fixes bug #3012: blind de-referencing of CPUdata independent of
>  > 	whether this CPU is actually registered with the CPUfreq core is 
>  > 	bad. The small fix proposed is really straightforward, the proper
>  > 	solution will be to merge the cpufreq-SMT patchkit, but that's much
>  > 	more invasive and not yet completely ready. A "must" for 2.6.8.
> 
> couldnt find this in my inbox/cpufreq folder. can you bounce this please?

Done in separate mail.

>  > - [speedstep-smi] get_frequencies SMM call causes failures 
>  > 	fixes bug reported by Pierre Maziere. Also really straightforward.
> 
> ditto (unless this is the 0xffff patch I just merged ?)

No, it's this patch you merged:
http://linux-dj.bkbits.net:8080/cpufreq/gnupatch@410e9165OpfEFE684FCd4kzghQsn5g

>  > - [pmac] scaling_availbale_frequencies, #define cleanup [John Clemens]
>  > x [pmac] does it keep frequency across suspend? If not, remove "equal" check
>  > 		in target and/or set_speed
>  > 	Don't really know about pmac's side of things, just wanted to
>  > 	mention	it again.
> 
> pmac bits I'd rather go via benh, as he has a far better handle
> on whats going on in that world, along with hardware with which
> to test these changes.

Agreed; as I said I don't know about pmac's side of things, just wanted to
keep benh awake :)

>  > - [core] SMT patchkit
>  > 	needs a bit of work, will re-submit for 2.6.9
> 
> Hmm.
> 
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.8-rc2] speedstep SMT support
> ...
> DB> Patch looks good, so: Dave, could you please merge it?
> 
> Merged.

Acutally, I meant something else...

[RFC][PATCH] (1/4) cpufreq SMT awareness: keep affected_cpu_mask
[RFC][PATCH] (2/4) cpufreq SMT awareness: save CPU's sys_device
[RFC][PATCH] (3/4) cpufreq SMT awareness: only register SMT group once
[RFC][PATCH] (4/4) cpufreq SMT awareness: code reduction

... but they need some work. Will do that against cpufreq-bk in a few days.

> Thanks for the summary 8-)
You're welcome. Thanks for removing items from the summary  by merging them :)

	Dominik