On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Friday 04 January 2008 10:42:17 Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > This makes a significant difference in boot up performance on AMD SimNow!
> > > Also I expect it to be a little faster on native systems too because a
> > > smp
> > > switch does a lot of text_poke()s which each synchronize the pipeline.
> >
> > Please run your patches through checkpatch.pl.
> >
> > ERROR: use tabs not spaces
> > #48: FILE: arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:360:
>
>
> I saw a lot of these warnings, but disregarded them as obviously silly. I
> don't
> have plans to redo all the patches for that.
Andi, this behaviour is obviously silly.
I know that you do not care about white space and consistent coding
style, but others do.
The kernel process request that _all_ contributors run their patches
through checkpath.pl and fix the problems. The review process is the
same for _all_ contributors and I'm not going to add an extra Andi
attitude mode to it.
> > > +
> > > + /* Only switch to UP mode if we don't immediately boot others */
> > > + if (num_possible_cpus() == 1 || max_cpus == 0)
> >
> > Shouldn't this be max_cpus <= 1 ?
>
> Don't think so, smp_init() seems to use it one off.
It's not a question of what you think. It's a question of what the
code does and what the meaning of the command line parameter is:
/*
* Setup routine for controlling SMP activation
*
* Command-line option of "nosmp" or "maxcpus=0" will disable SMP
* activation entirely (the MPS table probe still happens, though).
*
* Command-line option of "maxcpus=<NUM>", where <NUM> is an integer
* greater than 0, limits the maximum number of CPUs activated in
* SMP mode to <NUM>.
*/
There is no "one off" use in smp_init():
for_each_present_cpu(cpu) {
if (num_online_cpus() >= max_cpus)
break;
so the above check needs to be "max_cpus <= 1".
> > > +extern unsigned int max_cpus;
> >
> > I'm a bit wary about making max_cpus global. max_cpus is used all over
> > the place as a local variable name. Can we please rename it to
> > setup_max_cpus or something like that?
>
> Hmm, I didn't see any warnings from this so surely it's not a big issue?
It's not about warnings. It's about name spaces and it makes the
purpose of the global variable clear to the reader.
tglx
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