From: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
To: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>,
riel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
mingo@elte.hu, ak@muc.de, 76306.1226@compuserve.com,
wli@holomorphy.com, Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] percpu data: only iterate over possible CPUs
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 10:59:22 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060209165922.GM18730@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060209161331.GE20554@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > > Presumably not all architectures are doing that.
> > powerpc/ppc64, for instance, determines the number of possible cpus
> > from information exported by firmware (and I'm mystified as to why
> > other platforms don't do this). So it's typical to have a kernel an a
> > pSeries partition with NR_CPUS=128, but cpu_possible_map = 0xff.
>
> Simply because there is no such interface on s390. The only thing we know
> for sure is that if we are running under z/VM the user is free to
> configure up to 63 additional virtual cpus on the fly...
My "mystified" parenthetical was not meant as a criticism of
arch/!powerpc, but of the platform implementations themselves, for not
making such an interface available.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-09 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-02-07 15:15 ` [PATCH] percpu data: only iterate over possible CPUs Heiko Carstens
2006-02-07 15:31 ` Jens Axboe
2006-02-07 16:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-02-07 16:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-07 17:34 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-07 17:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-07 18:30 ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-02-07 18:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-07 18:53 ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-02-07 19:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-08 4:40 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-02-08 8:55 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2006-02-08 22:31 ` Rik van Riel
2006-02-09 1:20 ` Rik van Riel
2006-02-09 1:20 ` Rik van Riel
2006-02-09 3:05 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-09 3:08 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-09 4:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-02-09 4:45 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-09 4:56 ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-09 16:08 ` Nathan Lynch
2006-02-09 16:13 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-02-09 16:38 ` Rik van Riel
2006-02-09 16:59 ` Nathan Lynch [this message]
2006-02-09 17:37 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-10 10:05 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-02-10 10:13 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-11 14:49 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-02-11 18:04 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-09 17:03 ` Ashok Raj
2006-02-09 17:23 ` Nathan Lynch
2006-02-09 18:04 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-09 18:52 ` Ashok Raj
2006-02-09 20:37 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-09 21:03 ` Ashok Raj
2006-02-10 10:02 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-10 10:42 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-10 11:09 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-02-10 11:23 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-10 11:26 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-10 14:13 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-02-11 0:10 ` Nathan Lynch
2006-02-11 0:25 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-10 12:10 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-10 19:08 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-09 4:39 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-02-09 4:46 ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-09 8:32 Chuck Ebbert
2006-02-09 8:55 ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-09 9:06 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-09 9:11 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-09 10:08 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-02-09 10:13 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-09 10:23 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-02-09 10:31 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-09 11:47 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-02-09 12:46 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-02-09 13:12 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-02-09 13:55 ` Eric Dumazet
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