From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761592AbZBETwj (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 14:52:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757385AbZBETw2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 14:52:28 -0500 Received: from acsinet11.oracle.com ([141.146.126.233]:20240 "EHLO acsinet11.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758252AbZBETw1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 14:52:27 -0500 Message-ID: <498B437C.5030101@oracle.com> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:52:28 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap Organization: Oracle Linux Engineering User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070801) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Greear CC: linux-kernel , len.brown@intel.com Subject: Re: PATCH: Allow over-ride of smp_found_cfg with kernel cmd-line option. References: <498B421D.9090609@candelatech.com> In-Reply-To: <498B421D.9090609@candelatech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: acsmt700.oracle.com [141.146.40.70] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090206.498B4374.010A:SCFSTAT928724,ss=1,fgs=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 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