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

On 13 Sep 2005, at 20:08, Kamble, Nitin A wrote:
>    Thanks for the comments. I think you should be receiving these
> systems soon.
>
> I assume you are talking about the "big bang re-sync" of the
hypervisor
> and not of domain0 kernels :) The patch is for Hypervisor.
That''s correct. There are a bunch of platform bringup files we borrow 
very directly from Linux and I like to sync them up periodically and 
entirely, rather than piecemeal. I don''t think this patch is 
high-priority enough to break that general rule.

  -- Keir


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Hi Keir, Ian,
   Thanks for the comments. I think you should be receiving these
systems soon. 

I assume you are talking about the "big bang re-sync" of the
hypervisor
and not of domain0 kernels :) The patch is for Hypervisor.

Thanks & Regards,
Nitin
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Open Source Technology Center, Intel Corp
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Keir Fraser [mailto:Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 5:44 AM
>To: Ian Pratt
>Cc: xen-devel; ian.pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk; 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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