linux-kernel.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>,
	Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com>,
	tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com,
	hpa@zytor.com, x86@kernel.org, pbonzini@redhat.com,
	paulmck@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, rcu@vger.kernel.org, mimoja@mimoja.de,
	hewenliang4@huawei.com, thomas.lendacky@amd.com,
	seanjc@google.com, pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de,
	fam.zheng@bytedance.com, punit.agrawal@bytedance.com,
	simon.evans@bytedance.com, liangma@liangbit.com,
	Mario Limonciello <Mario.Limonciello@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 07/11] x86/smpboot: Disable parallel boot for AMD CPUs
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2023 22:31:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E2286684-F8AD-4708-9A3D-74C5EAE183B4@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5ba476f3-e0ac-d630-ce1d-18ab9885496f@linux.intel.com>



On 4 February 2023 18:18:55 GMT, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> 
>> However...
>> 
>> Even though we *can* support non-X2APIC processors, we *might* want to
>> play it safe and not go back that far; only enabling parallel bringup
>> on machines with X2APIC which roughly correlates with "lots of CPUs"
>> since that's where the benefit is.
>
>I think that this is the right approach, at least on the initial patch series.
>KISS principle; do all the easy-but-important cases first, get it stable and working
>and in later series/kernels the range can be expanded.... if it matters.

Agreed. I'll split it to do it only with X2APIC for the initial series, and then hold the CPUID 0x1 part back for the next phase.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-04 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-02 21:56 [PATCH v6 00/11] Parallel CPU bringup for x86_64 Usama Arif
2023-02-02 21:56 ` [PATCH v6 01/11] x86/apic/x2apic: Fix parallel handling of cluster_mask Usama Arif
2023-02-06 23:20   ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-02-07 10:57     ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-07 11:27       ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-07 14:24         ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-02-07 19:53           ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-07 20:58             ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-02-07 14:22       ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-02-02 21:56 ` [PATCH v6 02/11] cpu/hotplug: Move idle_thread_get() to <linux/smpboot.h> Usama Arif
2023-02-06 23:33   ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-02-07  1:24     ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-02-02 21:56 ` [PATCH v6 03/11] cpu/hotplug: Add dynamic parallel bringup states before CPUHP_BRINGUP_CPU Usama Arif
2023-02-06 23:43   ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-02-02 21:56 ` [PATCH v6 04/11] x86/smpboot: Reference count on smpboot_setup_warm_reset_vector() Usama Arif
2023-02-06 23:48   ` Thomas Gleixner
     [not found]     ` <57195f701f6d1d70ec440c9a28cbee4cfb81dc41.camel@amazon.co.uk>
2023-02-07 14:39       ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-02-07 16:50         ` Sean Christopherson
2023-02-07 19:48         ` [EXTERNAL][PATCH " David Woodhouse
2023-02-02 21:56 ` [PATCH v6 05/11] x86/smpboot: Split up native_cpu_up into separate phases and document them Usama Arif
2023-02-06 23:59   ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-02-02 21:56 ` [PATCH v6 06/11] x86/smpboot: Support parallel startup of secondary CPUs Usama Arif
2023-02-02 22:30   ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-02 22:50     ` [External] " Usama Arif
2023-02-03  8:14       ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-03 14:41         ` Arjan van de Ven
2023-02-03 18:17   ` Sean Christopherson
2023-02-07  0:07   ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-02-02 21:56 ` [PATCH v6 07/11] x86/smpboot: Disable parallel boot for AMD CPUs Usama Arif
2023-02-03 19:48   ` Kim Phillips
     [not found]     ` <d5ec64236ba75f0d3f3718fb69b2cb9169d8af0a.camel@amazon.co.uk>
2023-02-03 21:45       ` Kim Phillips
2023-02-03 22:25         ` [EXTERNAL][PATCH " David Woodhouse
2023-02-04  9:07     ` [PATCH " David Woodhouse
2023-02-04 10:09     ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-04 15:40     ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-04 18:18       ` Arjan van de Ven
2023-02-04 22:31         ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2023-02-05 22:13           ` [External] " Usama Arif
2023-02-06  8:05             ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-06 12:11               ` Usama Arif
2023-02-06 18:07                 ` Sean Christopherson
2023-02-06 17:58       ` Kim Phillips
2023-02-07 16:27         ` Kim Phillips
2023-02-07  0:23       ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-02-07 10:04         ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-07 14:44           ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-02-07  0:09   ` Thomas Gleixner
     [not found]     ` <cbd9e88e738dc0c479e87121ca82431731905c73.camel@amazon.co.uk>
2023-02-07 14:46       ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-02-02 21:56 ` [PATCH v6 08/11] x86/smpboot: Send INIT/SIPI/SIPI to secondary CPUs in parallel Usama Arif
2023-02-07  0:28   ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-02-02 21:56 ` [PATCH v6 09/11] x86/mtrr: Avoid repeated save of MTRRs on boot-time CPU bringup Usama Arif
2023-02-02 21:56 ` [PATCH v6 10/11] x86/smpboot: Serialize topology updates for secondary bringup Usama Arif
2023-02-02 21:56 ` [PATCH v6 11/11] x86/smpboot: reuse timer calibration Usama Arif
2023-02-07  0:31   ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-02-07 23:16   ` Arjan van de Ven
2023-02-07 23:55     ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-02-05 19:17 ` [PATCH v6 00/11] Parallel CPU bringup for x86_64 Russ Anderson
2023-02-06  8:28   ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-06 12:18     ` [External] " Usama Arif

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=E2286684-F8AD-4708-9A3D-74C5EAE183B4@infradead.org \
    --to=dwmw2@infradead.org \
    --cc=Mario.Limonciello@amd.com \
    --cc=arjan@linux.intel.com \
    --cc=bp@alien8.de \
    --cc=dave.hansen@linux.intel.com \
    --cc=fam.zheng@bytedance.com \
    --cc=hewenliang4@huawei.com \
    --cc=hpa@zytor.com \
    --cc=kim.phillips@amd.com \
    --cc=kvm@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=liangma@liangbit.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mimoja@mimoja.de \
    --cc=mingo@redhat.com \
    --cc=paulmck@kernel.org \
    --cc=pbonzini@redhat.com \
    --cc=pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de \
    --cc=punit.agrawal@bytedance.com \
    --cc=rcu@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=seanjc@google.com \
    --cc=simon.evans@bytedance.com \
    --cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
    --cc=thomas.lendacky@amd.com \
    --cc=usama.arif@bytedance.com \
    --cc=x86@kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).