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From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, len.brown@intel.com
Subject: Re: PATCH:  Allow over-ride of smp_found_cfg with kernel cmd-line option.
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:52:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <498B437C.5030101@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <498B421D.9090609@candelatech.com>

Ben Greear wrote:
> Allow user to keep smp_found_cfg set to 1 even if MADT
> cannot be parsed.  This works around funky BIOS on FWA-7304
> (VIA CN700 chipset) system, and possibly other systems as well.
> Without this override, performance drops by around 15% on
> network throughput tests on this system.
> 
> This is based on 2.6.29-rc3
> 
> Signed-Off-By:  Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>


Both patches (smp and tsc) need entries in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
(if they are accepted/merged).

And thunderbird can be coerced into sending patches inline instead of
using attachments... please.  Documentation/email-clients.txt might help you.

Thanks,
-- 
~Randy

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-05 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-05 19:46 PATCH: Allow over-ride of smp_found_cfg with kernel cmd-line option Ben Greear
2009-02-05 19:52 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2009-02-05 19:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-05 20:45   ` Ben Greear
2009-02-06 19:21   ` PATCH: (v2) " Ben Greear
2009-02-06 19:30     ` Randy Dunlap
2009-02-06 19:34       ` Yinghai Lu
2009-02-06 20:27         ` PATCH: (v3) " Ben Greear
2009-02-07  2:57           ` Len Brown
2009-02-06 19:31 ` PATCH: " Ingo Molnar
2009-02-07  3:00   ` Len Brown

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