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From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
To: Frank van der Linden <Frank.Vanderlinden@Sun.COM>,
	xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move smp_num_siblings to the per-cpu data
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:50:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C59CBC9D.1A8B%keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49765FF8.6030002@Sun.COM>

On 20/01/2009 23:36, "Frank van der Linden" <Frank.Vanderlinden@Sun.COM>
wrote:

> Make the num_siblings CPU parameter per-CPU.
> 
> While it is unlikely that a system has a different number of siblings
> for different physical CPUs,  make this parameter per-CPU for
> consistency, and deal with the (so far theoretical) case that this is
> different per CPU package.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Frank van der Linden <Frank.Vanderlinden@Sun.COM>

It's a pretty odd thing to decide to knock together one day. Do you have an
underlying near-term motive for adding this flexibility?

 -- Keir

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-21 11:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-20 23:36 [PATCH] Move smp_num_siblings to the per-cpu data Frank van der Linden
2009-01-21 11:50 ` Keir Fraser [this message]
2009-01-21 16:18   ` Frank Van Der Linden

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