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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>,
	qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] spapr: disintricate core-id from DT semantics
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 09:33:03 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160727233303.GA29626@voom.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160727120617.7c3eb34d@kaod.org>

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On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 12:06:17PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> Le Mon, 25 Jul 2016 16:01:31 +1000,
> David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> a écrit :
> 
> > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 01:10:36PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> > > The goal of this patch is to have a stable core-id which does not depend
> > > on any DT related semantics, which involve non-obvious computations on
> > > modern PowerPC server cpus.
> > > 
> > > With this patch, the DT core id is computed on-demand as:
> > > 
> > >        (core-id / smp_threads) * smt
> > > 
> > > where smt is the number of threads per core in the host.
> > > 
> > > This formula should be consolidated in a helper since it is needed in
> > > several places.  
> > 
> > It's a little odd you node this but don't do so.
> > 
> 
> I was too busy packing for holidays already :) and I think the consolidation
> work can be addressed in followup patches.

Heh, fair enough.

> Cheers from Brittany, under the rain.

Have fun.  Eat some chocolate pancakes for me.

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      reply	other threads:[~2016-07-27 23:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-22 11:10 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] spapr: disintricate core-id from DT semantics Greg Kurz
2016-07-25  6:01 ` David Gibson
2016-07-27 10:06   ` Greg Kurz
2016-07-27 23:33     ` David Gibson [this message]

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