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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] x86: revert X86_HT semantics change
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:04:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071115180436.GA23517@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071115161703.GR4250@stusta.de>

On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 05:17:03PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The x86 unification resulted in CONFIG_X86_HT no longer being
> set if (X86_32 && MK8).
Yup - my bad. I wrongly assumed MK8 was an X86_64 thing.

Thanks for fixing this.
> 
> After grep'ing through the tree I think the problem is that different 
> places have different assumptions about the semantics of CONFIG_X86_HT,
> either:
> - hyperthreading or
> - multicore
> and the SCHED_SMT and SCHED_MC dependencies are just one of the 
> symptoms.
> 
> This should be sorted out properly, but until then we should keep the 
> 2.6.23 status quo.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

I assume Thomas & Co will forward the patch.

	Sam

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-15 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-15 16:17 [2.6 patch] x86: revert X86_HT semantics change Adrian Bunk
2007-11-15 18:04 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2007-11-15 18:07   ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-11-15 18:19     ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-04 13:29       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-04 13:55         ` Adrian Bunk
2007-11-15 18:42     ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-11-15 18:48       ` Adrian Bunk

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