From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754041AbYJVOfL (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:35:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752639AbYJVOe5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:34:57 -0400 Received: from relay1.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:52073 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752578AbYJVOe4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:34:56 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:34:53 -0500 From: Russ Anderson To: Ingo Molnar Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86: Add UV watchlist bios call Message-ID: <20081022143452.GA201004@sgi.com> Reply-To: Russ Anderson References: <20081021200046.GC32545@sgi.com> <20081022062043.GC651@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081022062043.GC651@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 08:20:43AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Russ Anderson wrote: > > > Add UV bios calls to allocate and free watchlists. > > hm, what is a watchlist? It is a hardware feature in the SGI UV hardware, used as part of the GRU message queue support. It is used by drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_uv.c. Dean Nelson submitted a patch yesterday that uses the watchlist bios call. http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122462426019304&w=2 Thanks, -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@sgi.com