On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 10:46:57AM -0700, ron minnich wrote: > On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Stefan Reinauer<ste...@coresystems.de> wrote: > > > Another idea would be to get rid of SMP setup in CAR stage. It sounds > > highly funky to me anyways. > > > > - Why are we doing this anyways? > > o Is there a reason? > > o No other SMP system except K10 does this. > > > > * How many ms do we benefit from that? (Honest question). Any at all? > > This may fix one problem, but it does not fix the general problem: > using cf8/cfc is not going to be safe on multiple cores, from my > understanding.
Not to complicate matters even further, but since we are talking about locking - will any of this improve the 'many cores talking to serial at once' problem? Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <w...@fsf.org> Free Software Foundation - Senior Systems Administrator -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
