linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4 of 6] x86, UV: correct reset_with

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Message-ID: <20110615073726.GB3538@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:37:26 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Cliff Wickman <cpw@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4 of 6] x86, UV: correct reset_with_ipi()


* Cliff Wickman <cpw@....com> wrote:

> From: Cliff Wickman <cpw@....com>
> 
> Fix reset_with_ipi() to look up a cpu for a blade based on the
> distribution map being indexed by the potentially sparsely numbered pnode
> (relative to the partition base pnode). (It had been doing it based on
> 0-based, consecutive blade id.)

That's one fix.

> Rename 'hubmask' to 'pnmask' for clarity.

That's another one.

> And remove the stack-resident cpumask_t from reset_with_ipi() by allocating
> one per uvhub.

That's a third one.

Why isnt this done in three separate patches?

	Ingo
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