linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 0/4] dynamically allocate arch specific system vectors

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Message-ID: <48D1575E.1050306@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:15:42 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Dean Nelson <dcn@....com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Alan Mayer <ajm@....com>, jeremy@...p.org,
	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, suresh.b.siddha@...el.com,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.lu@....com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/4] dynamically allocate arch specific system vectors

Dean Nelson wrote:
> 
>     sgi-gru driver
> 
> The GRU is not an actual external device that is connected to an IOAPIC.
> The gru is a hardware mechanism that is embedded in the node controller
> (UV hub) that directly connects to the cpu socket. Any cpu (with permission)
> can do direct loads and stores to the gru. Some of these stores will result
> in an interrupt being sent back to the cpu that did the store.
> 
> The interrupt vector used for this interrupt is not in an IOAPIC. Instead
> it must be loaded into the GRU at boot or driver initialization time.
> 

Could you clarify there: is this one vector number per CPU, or are you 
issuing a specific vector number and just varying the CPU number?

	-hpa
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