From: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] x86, UV: BAU performance and error recovery
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 14:48:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100531194849.GA5757@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100529000526.GA30938@suse.de>
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 05:05:26PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 06:36:23PM -0500, Cliff Wickman wrote:
> > /proc/sgi_uv/bau_tunables would be a read/write file to display and change
> > nine threshold and delay values for tuning the BAU driver.
> >
> > I like debugfs, except that a distro may not build the kernel with it
> > configured on. The tunables should be available as administrative
> > options on a customer kernel, not just as a development tool.
>
> All distros have debugfs turned on now, and mounted, due to the perf
> interface there, as well as a lot of other good debug information that
> is present.
>
> So you don't have to worry about that.
Good to hear. That makes the choice simple.
>
...
>
> So please, just put it in debugfs.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
Okay. I moved the file to debugfs, and will re-submit the patch
momentarily.
-Cliff
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Cliff Wickman
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-31 19:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-28 13:33 [PATCH V3] x86, UV: BAU performance and error recovery Cliff Wickman
2010-05-28 16:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-28 16:47 ` Greg KH
2010-05-28 19:43 ` Cliff Wickman
2010-05-28 22:23 ` Greg KH
2010-05-28 23:36 ` Cliff Wickman
2010-05-29 0:05 ` Greg KH
2010-05-31 19:48 ` Cliff Wickman [this message]
2010-05-29 0:10 ` JD
2010-05-31 20:14 ` Cliff Wickman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-05-31 21:52 Cliff Wickman
2010-06-01 7:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-05-31 19:49 Cliff Wickman
2010-05-25 17:02 Cliff Wickman
2010-05-25 17:02 ` Cliff Wickman
2010-05-28 9:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-05-28 9:33 ` Ingo Molnar
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