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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
	laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Mathieu Desnoyers" <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
	josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"David Howells" <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	edumazet@google.com, darren@dvhart.com,
	"Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	"Silas Boyd-Wickizer" <sbw@mit.edu>,
	Linux-Arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 8/9] nohz_full: Add full-system-idle state machine
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 11:59:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130907185942.GG3966@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdXsAfo=LMF8E84_Lyhs+w5c3VKCEe7ZW5Bs7fwFV+J==w@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 01:22:57PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Paul E. McKenney
> > <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >>> Furthermore, it seems only hexagon, metag, mips, and x86 set NR_CPUS to 1
> >>> if !SMP. On other architectures, NR_CPUS is not defined and presumed to be 0.
> >>
> >> Would it make sense to require that NR_CPUS=1 for !SMP?
> >
> > Yes, this looks reasonable to me.
> 
> Perhaps we can invert the logic and define only NR_CPUS in arch-specific
> code, and derive SMP from NR_CPUS != 1 in generic code?

If we always had NR_CPUS defined, that might be a good way to go.
We would of course need acks from the various arch maintainers.  I am
guessing that we are OK for m68k.  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul


  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-07 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-20  2:47 [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/9] v2 sysidle changes for 3.12 Paul E. McKenney
2013-08-20  2:47 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/9] rcu: Eliminate unused APIs intended for adaptive ticks Paul E. McKenney
2013-08-20  2:47   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/9] nohz_full: Add testing information to documentation Paul E. McKenney
2013-08-20  2:47   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 3/9] nohz_full: Add Kconfig parameter for scalable detection of all-idle state Paul E. McKenney
2013-08-20  2:47   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 4/9] nohz_full: Add rcu_dyntick data " Paul E. McKenney
2013-08-20  2:47   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 5/9] nohz_full: Add per-CPU idle-state tracking Paul E. McKenney
2013-08-20  2:47   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 6/9] nohz_full: Add full-system idle states and variables Paul E. McKenney
2013-08-20  2:47   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 7/9] nohz_full: Add full-system-idle arguments to API Paul E. McKenney
2013-08-20  2:47   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 8/9] nohz_full: Add full-system-idle state machine Paul E. McKenney
2013-08-26  5:45     ` Lai Jiangshan
2013-08-26 16:24       ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-08-27  3:41         ` Lai Jiangshan
2013-08-31 21:20           ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-06  8:08     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-09-06 17:30       ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-06 18:50         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-09-06 19:32           ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-07 11:22           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-09-07 18:59             ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2013-09-07  9:13         ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-09-07 18:57           ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-08 10:32             ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-09-08 10:46               ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-08-20  2:47   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 9/9] nohz_full: Force RCU's grace-period kthreads onto timekeeping CPU Paul E. McKenney
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-08-18  1:49 [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/9] sysidle changes for v3.12 Paul E. McKenney
2013-08-18  1:49 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/9] rcu: Eliminate unused APIs intended for adaptive ticks Paul E. McKenney
2013-08-18  1:49   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 8/9] nohz_full: Add full-system-idle state machine Paul E. McKenney

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