From: James Cleverdon <jamesclv@us.ibm.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>, davej@suse.de (Dave Jones)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@steeleye.com,
torvalds@transmeta.com, alan@redhat.com, mingo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Summit patch for 2.5.34
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 12:03:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200209161203.21815.jamesclv@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200209161615.g8GGFqx10004@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
On Monday 16 September 2002 09:15 am, Alan Cox wrote:
> > - Is this the same summit code as is in 2.4-ac ?
> > (Ie, the one that boots on non summit systems too)
>
> Yes
It's the same, save for a few lines of code that use the local APIC's task
priority HW to try for some better dynamic interrupt balancing.
> > - I believe the way forward here is to work with James Bottomley,
> > who has a nice abstraction of the areas your patch touches for
> > his Voyager sub-architecture.
>
> For 2.5 maybe not for 2.4. Until Linus takes the subarch stuff the
> if if if bits will just get uglier. As well as voyager there are at least
> two more pending NUMA x86 platforms other than IBM summit
> -
I'll have to read up on James Bottomley's x86 subarch code.
--
James Cleverdon
IBM xSeries Linux Solutions
{jamesclv(Unix, preferred), cleverdj(Notes)} at us dot ibm dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-16 18:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-13 3:35 [PATCH] Summit patch for 2.5.34 James Cleverdon
2002-09-16 15:55 ` Dave Jones
2002-09-16 16:15 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-16 16:27 ` Dave Jones
2002-09-16 19:03 ` James Cleverdon [this message]
2002-09-16 21:24 ` James Cleverdon
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