From: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
To: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: update ibm,client-architecture
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:58:41 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091222005841.GM30375@ozlabs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B2FF35E.9020101@austin.ibm.com>
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 04:14:54PM -0600, Joel Schopp wrote:
> It's a bad interface. No matter what you choose there will be a
> downside. 1) If you choose NR_CPUS, the best case of how many you
> could boot without SMT, then when you boot with SMT2 or SMT4 you can
> get assigned more cpus than you can boot. 2) If you choose
> NR_CPUS/4, the worst case of how many you could boot, and you get a
> large machine with SMT2 or SMT1 you might have said you support less
> cpus than you actually do and thus not boot all the cpus. So no
> matter what you choose you could be not booting cpus in some
> theoretical scenario.
We're far enough through boot to determine the threading model, so you /could/
work out what SMT we're in and divide NR_CPUS by that and give that to firmware.
Yours Tony
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-22 0:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-18 21:07 [PATCH] powerpc: update ibm,client-architecture Joel Schopp
2009-12-20 23:59 ` Michael Neuling
2009-12-21 18:15 ` Joel Schopp
2009-12-21 21:12 ` Michael Neuling
2009-12-21 22:14 ` Joel Schopp
2009-12-22 0:33 ` Michael Neuling
2009-12-22 0:58 ` Tony Breeds [this message]
2009-12-21 0:44 ` Tony Breeds
2009-12-21 18:22 ` Joel Schopp
2009-12-22 0:18 ` Tony Breeds
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