From: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86: Add UV watchlist bios call
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:34:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081022143452.GA201004@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081022062043.GC651@elte.hu>
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 08:20:43AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> wrote:
>
> > Add UV bios calls to allocate and free watchlists.
>
> hm, what is a watchlist?
It is a hardware feature in the SGI UV hardware, used as part
of the GRU message queue support.
It is used by drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_uv.c. Dean Nelson submitted
a patch yesterday that uses the watchlist bios call.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122462426019304&w=2
Thanks,
--
Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead
SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@sgi.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-22 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-21 20:00 [PATCH 1/3] x86: Add UV watchlist bios call Russ Anderson
2008-10-22 6:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-22 14:34 ` Russ Anderson [this message]
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