Re: idle issues running sembench on 128 cpus

[Andi Kleen]

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, 5 May 2011, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 01:29:49AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> > That makes sense, but merging the timeouts race free will be a real
>> > PITA.
>> 
>> For this case one could actually use a spinlock between the siblings.
>> That shouldn't be a problem as long as it's not a global spinlock.
>
> Care to give it a try ?

Ok, will try tomorrow.

>> Here's a new patch without the raw. Boots on my Westmere.
>
>> +	cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
>
> Hmm. quilt refresh perhaps ? I know that feeling :)

The scp to copy the patch was too slow. Noticed it later and sent a new
one.

-Andi
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