[ewg] Re: [PATCH] IB/ehca: Serialize HCA-related hCalls on POWER5

2007-12-07 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thursday 06 December 2007, Roland Dreier wrote:   Regarding the performance problem, have you checked whether converting all   your spin_lock_irqsave to spin_lock/spin_lock_irq improves your performance   on the older machines? Maybe it's already fast enough that way. It does seem that

[ewg] Re: [PATCH] IB/ehca: Serialize HCA-related hCalls on POWER5

2007-12-06 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thursday 06 December 2007, Joachim Fenkes wrote: printk(KERN_INFO eHCA Infiniband Device Driver       (Version HCAD_VERSION )\n);   +   /* Autodetect hCall locking -- we can't read the firmware version +    * directly, but we know that starting with POWER6, all