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From: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, davem@caip.rutgers.edu
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, mingo@elte.hu, pwil3058@bigpond.net.au,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] sched: mc/smt power savings sched policy
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 10:29:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060607102917.A25186@unix-os.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060607094943.0433a52c.akpm@osdl.org>; from akpm@osdl.org on Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:49:43AM -0700

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:49:43AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 11:25:21 -0700
> "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > Appended the patch. Can someone please test compile the powerpc change?
> 
> powerpc compiles and boots OK, but sparc64 is not so good.
> 
> kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x6ec0): In function `sched_create_sysfs_power_savings_entries':
> : undefined reference to `smt_capable'

Dave, I am not sure if the appended patch is the correct(perhaps temporary?)
mechanism(currently smp_prepare_cpus() also uses this mechanism) in identifying
a SMT capable sparc64 processor. Can you confirm?

thanks,
suresh
--

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>

--- linux-2.6.17-rc5/include/asm-sparc64/topology.h	2006-05-24 18:50:17.000000000 -0700
+++ linux/include/asm-sparc64/topology.h	2006-06-07 08:28:13.726071744 -0700
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 #ifndef _ASM_SPARC64_TOPOLOGY_H
 #define _ASM_SPARC64_TOPOLOGY_H
 
+#include <asm/spitfire.h>
+#define smt_capable()	(tlb_type == hypervisor)
+
 #include <asm-generic/topology.h>
 
 #endif /* _ASM_SPARC64_TOPOLOGY_H */

      reply	other threads:[~2006-06-07 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-06 18:25 [Patch] sched: mc/smt power savings sched policy Siddha, Suresh B
2006-06-06 23:59 ` Con Kolivas
2006-06-07  1:06   ` Siddha, Suresh B
2006-06-07 16:49 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-07 17:29   ` Siddha, Suresh B [this message]

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