[PATCH] - Speed up boot - skip unnecessary clock calibration

[Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>]

Skip clock calibration if cpu being brought online is exactly the same
speed, stepping, etc., as the previous cpu. This significantly reduces
the time to boot very large systems. 

	Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>


Index: linux/arch/ia64/kernel/smpboot.c
=================================--- linux.orig/arch/ia64/kernel/smpboot.c	2007-03-26 15:04:29.322256475 -0500
+++ linux/arch/ia64/kernel/smpboot.c	2007-03-27 08:26:41.914042190 -0500
@@ -424,7 +424,19 @@ smp_callin (void)
 	 * Get our bogomips.
 	 */
 	ia64_init_itm();
-	calibrate_delay();
+
+	/*
+	 * Delay calibration can be skipped if new processor is identical to the
+	 * previous processor.
+	 */
+	if (local_cpu_data->itc_freq != per_cpu(cpu_info, cpuid - 1).itc_freq ||
+			local_cpu_data->proc_freq != per_cpu(cpu_info, cpuid - 1).proc_freq ||
+	    		local_cpu_data->features != per_cpu(cpu_info, cpuid - 1).features ||
+	    		local_cpu_data->revision != per_cpu(cpu_info, cpuid - 1).revision ||
+	    		local_cpu_data->family != per_cpu(cpu_info, cpuid - 1).family ||
+	    		local_cpu_data->archrev != per_cpu(cpu_info, cpuid - 1).archrev ||
+	    		local_cpu_data->model != per_cpu(cpu_info, cpuid - 1).model)
+		calibrate_delay();
 	local_cpu_data->loops_per_jiffy = loops_per_jiffy;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_IA32_SUPPORT