From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Holt Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:40:31 +0000 Subject: Re: [Patch 0/3] Modify how per_cpu allocations are done. -V8 Message-Id: <20080318094031.GB18194@sgi.com> List-Id: References: <20080213175519.892353127@attica.americas.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20080213175519.892353127@attica.americas.sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 07:22:03AM -0500, Robin Holt wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 07:12:40AM -0500, holt@sgi.com wrote: > > This patchset cleans up how per_cpu reservations are done. > > Argh, this should have been a better description and really only > and RFC instead of a patch. > > I updated the patch to have the early_cpu_possible_mask in both > the contig and discontig cases. This allows the mca stack allocator > to use that for preallocation instead of cpu_possible_map. In the > case of !CONFIG_ACPI, the early_cpu_possible_mask = cpu_possible_mask. > > I did find a tiger box (that is the same as a McKinnley SDV, correct?) to > try this on, but the serial console is messed up on that machine and it > so I will test this out when I get to the office. If you get a chance > first, please let me know if it works. The machine in question is in fairly bad disrepair. I believe we will finally get it booting again today, but it may not be until tomorrow. Have you had a chance to test this revised patchset on your tiger box? Thanks, Robin