Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/4] unsafe big.LITTLE support

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 16 Feb 2018, Julien Grall wrote:
> On 15/02/18 23:16, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > Hi all,
> 
> Hi Stefano,
> 
> > This series changes the initialization of two virtual registers to make
> > sure they match the value of the underlying physical cpu.
> > 
> > It also disables cpus different from the boot cpu, unless a newly
> > introduced command line option is specified. In that case, it explains
> > how to setup the system to avoid corruptions, which involves manually
> > specifying the cpu affinity of all domains, because the scheduler still
> > lacks big.LITTLE support.
> On top of this series, I think we want to rework how we read the size of the
> cacheline. At the moment, we only read it on the boot CPU. But they may be
> different on each CPUs.
> 
> So I would replace that variable by reading the cacheline size everytime from
> system registers. This should quicker than trying to read the memory to know
> the cacheline size.
> 
> Note that I suggested this as a small tasks for Outreachy/GSOC.

The suggestion is very good, I'll do it as part of this series.

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