Xen devel - Sep 2005 - RE: [PATCH] Automatic bigsmp detection for i386 systemswith more than 8 cpus

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
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>From: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com [mailto:xen-devel-
>bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Kamble, Nitin A
>Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 4:56 PM
>To: xen-devel; ian.pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk; Keir Fraser
>Cc: akpm@osdl.org; 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@intel.com>
>Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
>Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
>
>Thanks & Regards,
>Nitin
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>Sr Software Engineer
>Open Source Technology Center, Intel Corp

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On 13 Sep 2005, at 01:25, Kamble, Nitin A wrote:
> Ian, Keir,
>   What do you think of the bigsmp patch?
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Nitin
Is the original patch now applied to mainline Linux kernel?

  -- Keir


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