Re: [patch 13/14] x86_64: Use common functions in cluster and physflatmode

From: Zwane Mwaikambo
Date: Fri Sep 09 2005 - 12:02:06 EST


On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Ashok Raj wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:16:28AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 02:33:30PM -0700, akpm@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Newly introduced physflat_* shares way too much with cluster with only a very
> > > differences. So we introduce some common functions in that can be reused in
> > > both cases.

On a slightly different topic, how come we're using physflat for hotplug
cpu?

-#ifndef CONFIG_CPU_HOTPLUG
/* In the CPU hotplug case we cannot use broadcast mode
because that opens a race when a CPU is removed.
- Stay at physflat mode in this case.
- It is bad to do this unconditionally though. Once
- we have ACPI platform support for CPU hotplug
- we should detect hotplug capablity from ACPI tables and
- only do this when really needed. -AK */
+ Stay at physflat mode in this case. - AK */
+#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
if (num_cpus <= 8)
genapic = &apic_flat;

Thanks,
Zwane

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