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Message-Id: <200610261644.k9QGipAf21995445@clink.americas.sgi.com> 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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