From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265784AbUHNUwk (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Aug 2004 16:52:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265776AbUHNUwj (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Aug 2004 16:52:39 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.SGI.COM ([192.48.171.19]:30897 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265348AbUHNUwf (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Aug 2004 16:52:35 -0400 From: Jesse Barnes To: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [PATCH] add scheduler domains for ia64 Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 13:52:01 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, John Hawkes , Ingo Molnar References: <200408131108.40502.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> <411D85C3.4030808@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: <411D85C3.4030808@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408141352.01486.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday, August 13, 2004 8:23 pm, Nick Piggin wrote: > Andrew's latest tree should have a number of improvements and changes > to the sched domains code which you will need to synch up to. Yeah, I forgot about those. I'll respin against your consolidation stuff. > One issue you may have is that Ingo removed the ability to have arch > code override the domain structure due to it being too hazardous for > architectures to use in this form (which I don't entirely disagree with). > > Now I guess your patch could go into the generic code because it is > pretty general - however are you guys going to want to do anything > more fancy with these things? Maybe, we haven't figured out the best way to schedule on a 512p yet, but most or all of this code is generic. In order for things to work at all though, we'll need to change some of the SD_NODE_INIT values, maybe we can keep that as per-arch? Thanks, Jesse