Re: [PATCH v2 13/18] powerpc: Add support for setting SPRN_TIDR

2017-10-20 Thread Frederic Barrat
Le 07/10/2017 à 04:28, Sukadev Bhattiprolu a écrit : We need the SPRN_TIDR to be set for use with fast thread-wakeup (core- to-core wakeup) and also with CAPI. Each thread in a process needs to have a unique id within the process. But as explained below, for now, we assign globally unique thre

[PATCH v2 13/18] powerpc: Add support for setting SPRN_TIDR

2017-10-06 Thread Sukadev Bhattiprolu
We need the SPRN_TIDR to be set for use with fast thread-wakeup (core- to-core wakeup) and also with CAPI. Each thread in a process needs to have a unique id within the process. But as explained below, for now, we assign globally unique thread ids to all threads in the system. Signed-off-by: Suka