Re: [PATCH 0/1] speeding up cpu_up()

2015-05-05 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 05:45:17PM -0500, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote: > Tested a delay of 0 on Fam10h and Fam15h Model 30h-3fh and both work fine. Cool, thanks for testing. > Feedback from asking internally about this is that we should be OK to move > to a no-delay default from K8 onwards.

Re: [PATCH 0/1] speeding up cpu_up()

2015-05-05 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 05:45:17PM -0500, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote: Tested a delay of 0 on Fam10h and Fam15h Model 30h-3fh and both work fine. Cool, thanks for testing. Feedback from asking internally about this is that we should be OK to move to a no-delay default from K8 onwards. Also

Re: [PATCH 0/1] speeding up cpu_up()

2015-05-04 Thread Aravind Gopalakrishnan
On 5/3/2015 11:13 AM, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote: On 5/1/15 7:42 PM, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote: On 5/1/15 5:47 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: Aravind and I could probably test on a couple of AMD boxes to narrow down. @Aravind, see here:

Re: [PATCH 0/1] speeding up cpu_up()

2015-05-04 Thread Aravind Gopalakrishnan
On 5/3/2015 11:13 AM, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote: On 5/1/15 7:42 PM, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote: On 5/1/15 5:47 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: Aravind and I could probably test on a couple of AMD boxes to narrow down. @Aravind, see here:

Re: [PATCH 0/1] speeding up cpu_up()

2015-05-03 Thread Aravind Gopalakrishnan
On 5/1/15 7:42 PM, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote: On 5/1/15 5:47 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 02:42:39PM -0700, Len Brown wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:15 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: So instead of playing games with an ancient delay, I'd suggest we install the 10 msec

Re: [PATCH 0/1] speeding up cpu_up()

2015-05-03 Thread Aravind Gopalakrishnan
On 5/1/15 7:42 PM, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote: On 5/1/15 5:47 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 02:42:39PM -0700, Len Brown wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:15 AM, Ingo Molnar mi...@kernel.org wrote: So instead of playing games with an ancient delay, I'd suggest we

Re: [PATCH 0/1] speeding up cpu_up()

2015-05-01 Thread Aravind Gopalakrishnan
On 5/1/15 5:47 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 02:42:39PM -0700, Len Brown wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:15 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: So instead of playing games with an ancient delay, I'd suggest we install the 10 msec INIT assertion wait as a platform quirk instead,

Re: [PATCH 0/1] speeding up cpu_up()

2015-05-01 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 02:42:39PM -0700, Len Brown wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:15 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > So instead of playing games with an ancient delay, I'd suggest we > > install the 10 msec INIT assertion wait as a platform quirk instead, > > and activate it for all

Re: [PATCH 0/1] speeding up cpu_up()

2015-05-01 Thread Len Brown
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:15 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > So instead of playing games with an ancient delay, I'd suggest we > install the 10 msec INIT assertion wait as a platform quirk instead, > and activate it for all CPUs/systems that we think might need it, with > a sufficiently robust and

Re: [PATCH 0/1] speeding up cpu_up()

2015-05-01 Thread Aravind Gopalakrishnan
On 5/1/15 5:47 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 02:42:39PM -0700, Len Brown wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:15 AM, Ingo Molnar mi...@kernel.org wrote: So instead of playing games with an ancient delay, I'd suggest we install the 10 msec INIT assertion wait as a platform

Re: [PATCH 0/1] speeding up cpu_up()

2015-05-01 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 02:42:39PM -0700, Len Brown wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:15 AM, Ingo Molnar mi...@kernel.org wrote: So instead of playing games with an ancient delay, I'd suggest we install the 10 msec INIT assertion wait as a platform quirk instead, and activate it for all

Re: [PATCH 0/1] speeding up cpu_up()

2015-05-01 Thread Len Brown
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:15 AM, Ingo Molnar mi...@kernel.org wrote: So instead of playing games with an ancient delay, I'd suggest we install the 10 msec INIT assertion wait as a platform quirk instead, and activate it for all CPUs/systems that we think might need it, with a sufficiently

Re: [PATCH 0/1] speeding up cpu_up()

2015-04-20 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Len Brown wrote: > The following patch... > > [PATCH 1/1] x86: replace cpu_up hard-coded mdelay with variable > > enables reducing cpu_up() time by 10ms on modern systems. > > This means that for every processor in the system, > boot-time and resume-time can be reduced by 10ms

Re: [PATCH 0/1] speeding up cpu_up()

2015-04-20 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Len Brown l...@kernel.org wrote: The following patch... [PATCH 1/1] x86: replace cpu_up hard-coded mdelay with variable enables reducing cpu_up() time by 10ms on modern systems. This means that for every processor in the system, boot-time and resume-time can be reduced by 10ms

[PATCH 0/1] speeding up cpu_up()

2015-04-18 Thread Len Brown
The following patch... [PATCH 1/1] x86: replace cpu_up hard-coded mdelay with variable enables reducing cpu_up() time by 10ms on modern systems. This means that for every processor in the system, boot-time and resume-time can be reduced by 10ms per-processor. Once this patch is accepted, I'll

[PATCH 0/1] speeding up cpu_up()

2015-04-18 Thread Len Brown
The following patch... [PATCH 1/1] x86: replace cpu_up hard-coded mdelay with variable enables reducing cpu_up() time by 10ms on modern systems. This means that for every processor in the system, boot-time and resume-time can be reduced by 10ms per-processor. Once this patch is accepted, I'll