RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Automatic bigsmp detection for i386 systemswith more than 8 cpus

["Kamble, Nitin A" <nitin.a.kamble@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ian, Keir,
  What do you think of the bigsmp patch?

Thanks & Regards,
Nitin
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Sr Software Engineer
Open Source Technology Center, Intel Corp

>-----Original Message-----
>From: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-devel-
>bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kamble, Nitin A
>Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 4:56 PM
>To: xen-devel; ian.pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx; Keir Fraser
>Cc: akpm@xxxxxxxx; Pallipadi, Venkatesh
>Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Automatic bigsmp detection for i386
>systemswith more than 8 cpus
>
>Ian, Keir,
>   Linux kernel is able to enable bigsmp mode automatically if SMP i386
>kernel finds more than 8 cpus in the system. This patch adds this
>missing feature to Xen hypervisor, to enable Xen booting fine on
systems
>with more than 8 CPUS without any commandline options.
>
>For reference here is the original patch for Linux Kernel.
>http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13/2
.
>6.13-mm1/broken-out/x86-automatically-enable-bigsmp-when-we-have-more-t
h
>an-8-cpus-2.patch
>
>Please apply and/or provide comments.
>
>Signed-off-by: Nitin Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@xxxxxxxxx>
>Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx>
>Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
>
>Thanks & Regards,
>Nitin
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>Sr Software Engineer
>Open Source Technology Center, Intel Corp


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