linux-kernel - Re: [patch 4/4] x86: apic_is_clustered_box to indicate unsynched TSC's on multiboard vSMP systems

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Message-ID: <20080325155032.GC27174@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:50:32 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@...lex86.org>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@...hat.com>,
	shai@...lex86.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/4] x86: apic_is_clustered_box to indicate unsynched
	TSC's on multiboard vSMP systems


* Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@...lex86.org> wrote:

> Sure.  Here's the modified patch.
> 
> vSMP detection: Access pci config space early in boot to detect if the 
> system is a vSMPowered box, and cache the result in a flag, so that 
> is_vsmp_box() retrieves the value of the flag always.

thanks, applied.

	Ingo
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