Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:34:53 -0500 | From | Russ Anderson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86: Add UV watchlist bios call |
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On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 08:20:43AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> wrote: > > > Add UV bios calls to allocate and free watchlists. > > hm, what is a watchlist?
It is a hardware feature in the SGI UV hardware, used as part of the GRU message queue support.
It is used by drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_uv.c. Dean Nelson submitted a patch yesterday that uses the watchlist bios call.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122462426019304&w=2
Thanks, -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@sgi.com
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