Haren Myneni ha...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 13:41 +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
Heaven Myneni ha...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
powerpc: SMT priority (PPR) save and restore
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Can you break this patch into a few parts that are easier to review than
one giant
Can you break this patch into a few parts that are easier to review than
one giant patch. Start by adding the PPR ftr bits, then the extra space
in the paca, then the new macros, then use the new infrastructure. I'm
sure you can get 5 or so patches which will be much easier to
On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 13:41 +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
Heaven Myneni ha...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
powerpc: SMT priority (PPR) save and restore
On P7 systems, users can define SMT priority levels 2,3 and 4 for
processes so that some can run higher priority than the other ones.
Heaven Myneni ha...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
powerpc: SMT priority (PPR) save and restore
On P7 systems, users can define SMT priority levels 2,3 and 4 for
processes so that some can run higher priority than the other ones.
In the current kernel, the default priority is set to 4 which