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RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Automatic bigsmp detection for i386 systemswith

To: "Keir Fraser" <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Automatic bigsmp detection for i386 systemswith more than 8 cpus
From: "Kamble, Nitin A" <nitin.a.kamble@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:52:52 -0700
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Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Automatic bigsmp detection for i386 systemswith more than 8 cpus
Keir,
  FYI the bigsmp auto detection has made into Linux base tree.
http://www.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6/?cmd=changeset;node=f3fafb855f9bb8a6e
017f7e53721325621c218ff

Thanks & Regards,
Nitin
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Keir Fraser [mailto:Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 5:44 AM
>To: Ian Pratt
>Cc: xen-devel; ian.pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx; Kamble, Nitin A
>Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Automatic bigsmp detection for i386
>systemswith more than 8 cpus
>
>
>On 13 Sep 2005, at 12:18, Ian Pratt wrote:
>
>>
>> If only we had a bigsmp to test it on :-)
>>
>> From my POV it makes sense to include it, and a cursory look through
>> looked sane. Not sure whether Keir has had a chance to look yet.
>
>I like to keep those files reasonably in sync with Linux, and prefer to
>do that with 'big bang' re-sync every one in a while. I don't see that
>patch in 2.6.13.1, and I'm wary about applying it until I see it in a
>mainline kernel.org kernel. In any case, the drawback of not applying
>right now is simply that bigsmp systems need bigsmp added to the boot
>line, which isn;t too much of a hardship for the very few users it
>affects. Probably I'll do another big re-sync with 2.6.14, and
>presumably that will get us the auto-bigsmp patch at the same time.
>
>  -- Keir


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