Re: PATCH: Allow over-ride of smp_found_cfg with kernel cmd-lineoption.

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Thu Feb 05 2009 - 14:52:40 EST


Ben Greear wrote:
> Allow user to keep smp_found_cfg set to 1 even if MADT
> cannot be parsed. This works around funky BIOS on FWA-7304
> (VIA CN700 chipset) system, and possibly other systems as well.
> Without this override, performance drops by around 15% on
> network throughput tests on this system.
>
> This is based on 2.6.29-rc3
>
> Signed-Off-By: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Both patches (smp and tsc) need entries in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
(if they are accepted/merged).

And thunderbird can be coerced into sending patches inline instead of
using attachments... please. Documentation/email-clients.txt might help you.

Thanks,
--
~Randy
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/