From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>, george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]Timer list init is done AFTER use
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:14:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14540000.1040591645@titus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E0579F8.CF1D94A9@digeo.com>
> The boot cpu is set online extremely late. Strangely late. Why
> is this?
>
> How about something like the below? We mark the boot cpu
> online in generic code as soon as it has initialised its per-cpu
> storage (seems appropriate?)
I seem to recall some related problem with the topology stuff ...
anyway, I tested your patch on a 16-way NUMA-Q and it works just fine.
Thanks for fixing that up ....
> This will then allow that cpu to actually start calling into console
> drivers, if they have been registered. If those drivers do a mod_timer()
> (as the vga console does) then that will work OK.
Would be nice to shift generic console_init earlier, if that's what
you're implying, but we still need early_printk for setup_arch.
M.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-22 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-20 8:43 [PATCH]Timer list init is done AFTER use george anzinger
2002-12-20 10:26 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-20 17:18 ` george anzinger
2002-12-20 19:34 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-20 20:01 ` george anzinger
2002-12-20 20:31 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-22 8:38 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-22 9:58 ` george anzinger
2002-12-22 21:14 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
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