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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2007-05-02 19:27:04 +0200
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2007-05-02 19:27:04 +0200
commitf18d397e6aa5cde638d164b1d519c3ee903f4867 (patch)
tree798794c8aa2599fe7b284a0fc7f7b9b151b18c60 /kernel/latency.c
parenta86f34b49f32b238d16b2e3bf6c9a5391a3f683f (diff)
[PATCH] x86-64: optimize & fix APIC mode setup
Fix a couple of inconsistencies/problems I found while reviewing the x86_64 genapic code (when I was chasing mysterious eth0 timeouts that would only trigger if CPU_HOTPLUG is enabled): - AMD systems defaulted to the slower flat-physical mode instead of the flat-logical mode. The only restriction on AMD systems is that they should not use clustered APIC mode. - removed the CPU hotplug hacks, switching the default for small systems back from phys-flat to logical-flat. The switching to logical flat mode on small systems fixed sporadic ethernet driver timeouts i was getting on a dual-core Athlon64 system: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out eth0: Transmit timeout, status 0c 0005 c07f media 80. eth0: Tx queue start entry 32 dirty entry 28. eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 0008a04a. (queue head) eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 0008a04a. eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 0008a04a. eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 0008a04a. eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xC5E1 - The use of '<= 8' was a bug by itself (the valid APIC ids for logical flat mode go from 0 to 7, not 0 to 8). The new logic is to use logical flat mode on both AMD and Intel systems, and to only switch to physical mode when logical mode cannot be used. If CPU hotplug is racy wrt. APIC shutdown then CPU hotplug needs fixing, not the whole IRQ system be made inconsistent and slowed down. - minor cleanups: simplified some code constructs build & booted on a couple of AMD and Intel SMP systems. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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