Re: [patch] fix per-CPU MCA mess and make UP kernels work again

[Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 05:48:26PM -0600, Russ Anderson wrote:
> Tony Luck wrote:
> > 
> > Also I noticed that ia64_sal_to_os_handoff_state
> > hasn't been replicated ... won't we need that too?
> 
> According to the SAL Spec, MCAs are supposed to be handled
> one at a time.  

It has been a long time since I looked, but I thought the
spec allowed either implemention, ie. serialize OR all-at-once.

Maybe I'm remembering the error handling guide but I know
I have seen this somewhere.....


> 
> I would like that to change, so that multiple independent
> MCAs could be handled in parallel, but that would require
> a number of Spec changes (ie the way rendezvous works).
> 
> We should go down that path...
> 
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> Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead  
> SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc          rja@sgi.com
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Thanks

Jack Steiner (steiner@sgi.com)          651-683-5302
Principal Engineer                      SGI - Silicon Graphics, Inc.