RE: ARC compact700 NPS platform - EZ_MachineCheck exception handler

2018-05-22 Thread Ofer Levi(SW)
Exception, for emulating in software > -Original Message- > From: Vineet Gupta [mailto:vineet.gup...@synopsys.com] > Sent: Monday, May 21, 2018 19:59 > To: Ofer Levi(SW) > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Meir Lichtinger ; > arcml > Subject: Re: ARC compact700 NPS plat

RE: ARC compact700 NPS platform - EZ_MachineCheck exception handler

2018-05-21 Thread Ofer Levi(SW)
Resending, due to typo in LKML mail address. Hi Vineet, The EV_MachineCheck exception handler is halting the core for exceptions which are not tlb_overlap_fault. Since for the NPS platform each core is running a single thread in ZOL (Zero Overhead Linux) isolation mode, we feel that most

RE: hotplug support for arch/arc/plat-eznps platform

2017-08-10 Thread Ofer Levi(SW)
jlstra [mailto:pet...@infradead.org] > Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 6:35 PM > To: Ofer Levi(SW) > Cc: ru...@rustcorp.com.au; mi...@redhat.com; > vineet.gup...@synopsys.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Tejun Heo > > Subject: Re: hotplug support for arch/arc/plat-eznps plat

RE: hotplug support for arch/arc/plat-eznps platform

2017-08-10 Thread Ofer Levi(SW)
Great, thanks. > -Original Message- > From: Peter Zijlstra [mailto:pet...@infradead.org] > Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 12:19 PM > To: Ofer Levi(SW) > Cc: ru...@rustcorp.com.au; mi...@redhat.com; > vineet.gup...@synopsys.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Tejun He

hotplug support for arch/arc/plat-eznps platform

2017-08-05 Thread Ofer Levi(SW)
I'm adding hot-plug support for the above arch and ran into performance issue with execution of partition_sched_domains () - About 0.5 sec per cpu, which is unacceptable with the arch supported 4k cpus. To my limited understanding, on the plat-eznps arch, where each cpu is always running a sin

RE: hotplug support for arch/arc/plat-eznps platform

2017-08-07 Thread Ofer Levi(SW)
all cpus were brought up during kernel boot. Thanks -Ofer On Monday, August 7, 2017 11:34 AM +, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 05:53:37AM +, Ofer Levi(SW) wrote: > > I'm adding hot-plug support for the above arch and ran into performance > issue w

RE: hotplug support for arch/arc/plat-eznps platform

2017-08-07 Thread Ofer Levi(SW)
> On Monday, August 7, 2017 6:10 PM +0000, Ofer Levi(SW) wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 01:41:38PM +0000, Ofer Levi(SW) wrote: > > > You've failed to explain why you think hotplug should be a > > > performance critical path. > > 1. hotplug bring up of 4

RE: hotplug support for arch/arc/plat-eznps platform

2017-08-09 Thread Ofer Levi(SW)
s has any influence. Would appreciate your thoughts. Thanks -Ofer > -Original Message- > From: Peter Zijlstra [mailto:pet...@infradead.org] > Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2017 1:16 PM > To: Ofer Levi(SW) > Cc: ru...@rustcorp.com.au; mi...@redhat.com; > vineet.gup...@syn

RE: hotplug support for arch/arc/plat-eznps platform

2017-08-14 Thread Ofer Levi(SW)
ess than > multiple racks worth like the SGI systems were. It's a single chip with 4K cpus, capable of 400Gbps duplex. Evaluation board is pizza box size. Thanks > -Original Message- > From: Peter Zijlstra [mailto:pet...@infradead.org] > Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 6:45 PM