Messages in this thread |  | | From | James Cleverdon <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Summit patch for 2.5.34 | Date | Mon, 16 Sep 2002 12:03:21 -0700 |
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On Monday 16 September 2002 09:15 am, Alan Cox wrote: > > - Is this the same summit code as is in 2.4-ac ? > > (Ie, the one that boots on non summit systems too) > > Yes
It's the same, save for a few lines of code that use the local APIC's task priority HW to try for some better dynamic interrupt balancing.
> > - I believe the way forward here is to work with James Bottomley, > > who has a nice abstraction of the areas your patch touches for > > his Voyager sub-architecture. > > For 2.5 maybe not for 2.4. Until Linus takes the subarch stuff the > if if if bits will just get uglier. As well as voyager there are at least > two more pending NUMA x86 platforms other than IBM summit > -
I'll have to read up on James Bottomley's x86 subarch code.
-- James Cleverdon IBM xSeries Linux Solutions {jamesclv(Unix, preferred), cleverdj(Notes)} at us dot ibm dot com
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