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Date:      Mon, 9 Aug 2010 11:25:58 +0530
From:      "Jayachandran C." <c.jayachandran@gmail.com>
To:        Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, "Jayachandran C." <jchandra@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Joe Landers <jlanders@vmware.com>, Randall Stewart <rrs@freebsd.org>, sbruno@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r208165 - in head/sys: kern mips/conf mips/include  mips/mips mips/rmi mips/rmi/dev/xlr
Message-ID:  <AANLkTi=jkUiXStPV3Gq206GgmctM9%2B1ofbNWuh5CSeWw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 2010/5/16 Randall Stewart <rrs@freebsd.org>:
>> Author: rrs
>> Date: Sun May 16 19:43:48 2010
>> New Revision: 208165
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/208165
>>
>> Log:
>> =A0This pushes all of JC's patches that I have in place. I
>> =A0am now able to run 32 cores ok.. but I still will hang
>> =A0on buildworld with a NFS problem. I suspect I am missing
>> =A0a patch for the netlogic rge driver.
>>
>> =A0JC check and see if I am missing anything except your
>> =A0core-mask changes
>
>
>> Modified: head/sys/kern/subr_smp.c
>> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D
>> --- head/sys/kern/subr_smp.c =A0 =A0Sun May 16 19:25:56 2010 =A0 =A0 =A0=
 =A0(r208164)
>> +++ head/sys/kern/subr_smp.c =A0 =A0Sun May 16 19:43:48 2010 =A0 =A0 =A0=
 =A0(r208165)
>> @@ -503,7 +503,10 @@ smp_topo_none(void)
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0top =3D &group[0];
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0top->cg_parent =3D NULL;
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0top->cg_child =3D NULL;
>> - =A0 =A0 =A0 top->cg_mask =3D (1 << mp_ncpus) - 1;
>> + =A0 =A0 =A0 if (mp_ncpus =3D=3D sizeof(top->cg_mask) * 8)
>> + =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 top->cg_mask =3D -1;
>> + =A0 =A0 =A0 else
>> + =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 top->cg_mask =3D (1 << mp_ncpus) - 1;
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0top->cg_count =3D mp_ncpus;
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0top->cg_children =3D 0;
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0top->cg_level =3D CG_SHARE_NONE;
>>
>
> ... and this is why I particulary hate big commits with complete lack
> of technical details.
>
> This particulary chunk was supposed to fix a nasty and completely MI
> bug that some users have already met (kern/148698). The complete lack
> of details didn't help in identify the issue neither that it was a
> valuable fix.
>
> The fix is, however, improper (there is no clear relationship between
> the multiplication and why that happens) thus I would rather use what
> Joe has reported in the PR.


I was not aware of the PR when I sent this changes to rrs@, and this
went as a part of MIPS SMP support for XLR which has 32 CPUs

But I'm not sure that the current change is correct, cg_mask is of
type cpumask_t and I don't think it is guaranteed to be 32 bit (as it
is a machine dependent type).

JC.



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