Re: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc: make 64K huge pages more reliable

2007-12-03 Thread Chris Snook
David Gibson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 11:03:16PM -0600, Jon Tollefson wrote: >> This patch adds reliability to the 64K huge page option by making use of >> the PMD for 64K huge pages when base pages are 4k. So instead of a 12 >> bit pte it would be 7 bit pmd and a 5 bit pte. The pgd and

Re: default IRQ affinity change in v2.6.27 (breaking several SMP PPC based systems)

2008-10-24 Thread Chris Snook
Kumar Gala wrote: It appears the default IRQ affinity changes from being just cpu 0 to all cpu's. This breaks several PPC SMP systems in which only a single processor is allowed to be selected as the destination of the IRQ. What is the right answer in fixing this? Should we: cpumask_t i

Re: default IRQ affinity change in v2.6.27 (breaking several SMP PPC based systems)

2008-10-24 Thread Chris Snook
Kumar Gala wrote: On Oct 24, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Chris Snook wrote: Kumar Gala wrote: It appears the default IRQ affinity changes from being just cpu 0 to all cpu's. This breaks several PPC SMP systems in which only a single processor is allowed to be selected as the destination of the

Re: default IRQ affinity change in v2.6.27 (breaking several SMP PPC based systems)

2008-10-24 Thread Chris Snook
Kumar Gala wrote: On Oct 24, 2008, at 11:09 AM, Chris Snook wrote: Kumar Gala wrote: On Oct 24, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Chris Snook wrote: Kumar Gala wrote: It appears the default IRQ affinity changes from being just cpu 0 to all cpu's. This breaks several PPC SMP systems in which o

Re: default IRQ affinity change in v2.6.27 (breaking several SMP PPC based systems)

2008-10-24 Thread Chris Snook
Scott Wood wrote: Kumar Gala wrote: So why not just have x86 startup code set irq_default_affinity = CPU_MASK_ALL than? That doesn't really solve the problem, as a user could still manually set an invalid affinity. The MPIC driver should reduce the affinity itself to what the hardware can h