On Fri, 16 Feb 2018, Julien Grall wrote: > On 15/02/18 23:16, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > Hi all, > > Hi Stefano, > > > This series changes the initialization of two virtual registers to make > > sure they match the value of the underlying physical cpu. > > > > It also disables cpus different from the boot cpu, unless a newly > > introduced command line option is specified. In that case, it explains > > how to setup the system to avoid corruptions, which involves manually > > specifying the cpu affinity of all domains, because the scheduler still > > lacks big.LITTLE support. > On top of this series, I think we want to rework how we read the size of the > cacheline. At the moment, we only read it on the boot CPU. But they may be > different on each CPUs. > > So I would replace that variable by reading the cacheline size everytime from > system registers. This should quicker than trying to read the memory to know > the cacheline size. > > Note that I suggested this as a small tasks for Outreachy/GSOC.
The suggestion is very good, I'll do it as part of this series. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
