RE: [PATCH -mm] IOAT: fix for UP use of cpu_physical_id()

From: Nelson, Shannon
Date: Mon Aug 20 2007 - 19:22:02 EST


>-----Original Message-----
>From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa@xxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 3:27 PM
>To: Nelson, Shannon
>Cc: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
>chris.leech@xxxxxxxxx; ak@xxxxxxx; Luck, Tony
>Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] IOAT: fix for UP use of cpu_physical_id()
>
>Shannon Nelson wrote:
>> Make sure we can use cpu_physical_id() even when compiled for
>> uni-processor.
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/dma/ioat_dca.c b/drivers/dma/ioat_dca.c
>> index c3a500b..b1af49c 100644
>> --- a/drivers/dma/ioat_dca.c
>> +++ b/drivers/dma/ioat_dca.c
>> @@ -25,6 +25,14 @@
>> #include <linux/smp.h>
>> #include <linux/interrupt.h>
>> #include <linux/dca.h>
>> +
>> +// either a kernel change is needed, or we need something
>like this in kernel
>> +#ifndef CONFIG_SMP
>> +#include <asm/smp.h>
>> +#undef cpu_physical_id
>> +#define cpu_physical_id(cpu) (cpuid_ebx(1) >> 24)
>> +#endif
>> +
>
>This value should probably be cached. Executing cpuid to get a static
>value seems like a bad idea.

Yeah, this whole cpu_physical_id() gizmo needs to be fixed so it is
actually usable for non-SMP configurations. Unfortunately, I'm not the
guy to do it.

sln
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