linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/15] x86, sched: Add config option for multi-node CPU scheduling

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Message-ID: <20090824084935.GT29515@alberich.amd.com>
Date:	Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:49:35 +0200
From:	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
CC:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/15] x86, sched: Add config option for multi-node CPU
	scheduling

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 09:50:35AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:15:21 +0200, Andreas Herrmann said:
> > 
> > I've decided to add this as a subitem of MC scheduling.
> > I think the normal case will be that a multi-node CPU has more than 1
> > core on each of its nodes. Thus using MN scheduling without MC
> > scheduling does not make much sense.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/Kconfig |   10 ++++++++++
> >  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> Is this patch series bisectable? I admit not having checked deeply, and
> at least at first glance the rest looks sane - but usually Kconfig changes
> are kept until the *last* patch so that there's no chance of inter-patch
> dependencies breaking...

It should be bisectable -- i.e. it shouldn't cause build errors.
Furthermore the real usage of MN domains gets activated with
patch 7.


Regards,

Andreas


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