From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: allow 8 more cpus could be used
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:44:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4982315F.20705@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090129224236.GD1465@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>> Impact: fix left out MARCO
>>
>> X86_PC will be always enabled. so need to check if we have bigsmp
>> support built in before cut off more than 8 cpus.
>
> ah, that's a leftover reference to X86_PC. It can now be removed, together
> with the Kconfig X86_PC option.
>
>> -#if defined(CONFIG_X86_PC) && defined(CONFIG_X86_32)
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_X86_PC) && !defined(CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP)
>> if (def_to_bigsmp && nr_cpu_ids > 8) {
>> unsigned int cpu;
>> unsigned nr;
>
> Could you please send a patch that removes both X86_PC and X86_BIGSMP -
> and removes the above cutoff code too, so that it will be built-in all the
> time?
sure. maybe we could keep X86_BIGSMP for a while. So someone don't enable BIGSMP for small system?
YH
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-29 22:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-29 22:18 [PATCH] x86: allow 8 more cpus could be used Yinghai Lu
2009-01-29 22:19 ` [PATCH] x86: don't treat bigsmp as no standard Yinghai Lu
2009-01-30 14:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-29 22:42 ` [PATCH] x86: allow 8 more cpus could be used Ingo Molnar
2009-01-29 22:44 ` Yinghai Lu [this message]
2009-01-29 23:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-29 23:14 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-01-29 23:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-29 22:44 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-01-29 23:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-29 23:14 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-01-29 23:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-29 23:23 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-01-29 23:25 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-01-30 0:09 ` Ingo Molnar
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