Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:42:55 +0100 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] x86: revert X86_HT semantics change |
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On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 07:07:11PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 05:17:03PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > The x86 unification resulted in CONFIG_X86_HT no longer being > > > set if (X86_32 && MK8). > > Yup - my bad. I wrongly assumed MK8 was an X86_64 thing. > > > > Thanks for fixing this. > > > > > > After grep'ing through the tree I think the problem is that different > > > places have different assumptions about the semantics of CONFIG_X86_HT, > > > either: > > > - hyperthreading or > > > - multicore > > > and the SCHED_SMT and SCHED_MC dependencies are just one of the > > > symptoms. > > > > > > This should be sorted out properly, but until then we should keep the > > > 2.6.23 status quo. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> > > Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> > > > > I assume Thomas & Co will forward the patch. > > After looking what does what and fixing it. > > Right now this patch is not a 1:1 replacement of the .23 status quo, > as it now makes SCHED_SMT and SCHED_HT depend on !MK8 for 64bit.
I assumed this was intentional - Adrian?
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