linux-kernel - Re: [patch] Mixed Madison and Montecito system support

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Date:	Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:44:51 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Russ Anderson <rja@....com>
To:	suresh.b.siddha@...el.com (Siddha, Suresh B)
Cc:	rja@....com (Russ Anderson), tony.luck@...el.com (Luck Tony),
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Mixed Madison and Montecito system support

Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
> 
> I added it so that these entries will not confuse users of a non-smt/mc
> systems. But mixed type of processors and cpu hotplug really complicates the
> things..

Yes, it does.  :-)
 
> May be a check of something like "is this platform capable of
> supporting any multi-core/multi-threaded processor package?" helps..
> 
> As there is no well defined mechanism to find out that and for simplicity
> reasons, we should probably go with Tony's suggestion.
> 
> Russ I can post a patch, removing both smt_capable() and mc_capable()
> checks.

Yes, please do.

> Today this sysfs variable is not documented. But when it happens, we
> need to clearly document that these variables have no meaning when
> the system doesn't have cpus with threads/cores.


-- 
Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead  
SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc          rja@....com
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