1. 17 Sep, 2004 37 commits
  2. 16 Sep, 2004 3 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge http://lia64.bkbits.net/linux-ia64-release-2.6.9 · 4f0fdda0
      Linus Torvalds authored
      into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
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    • Tony Luck's avatar
      Merge agluck-lia64.sc.intel.com:/data/home/aegl/BK/work/sgi · f6c62004
      Tony Luck authored
      into agluck-lia64.sc.intel.com:/data/home/aegl/BK/linux-ia64-release-2.6.9
      f6c62004
    • Mark Goodwin's avatar
      [IA64] SGI Altix hardware performance monitoring API · 79a7b633
      Mark Goodwin authored
       
        
      The SGI Altix PROM supports a SAL call for performance monitoring and for
      exporting NUMA topology. We need this in community kernels for diagnostic
      and performance tools to use, especially on very large machines.
      
      This patch registers a dynamic misc device "sn_hwperf" that supports an
      ioctl interface for reading/writing memory mapped registers on Altix
      nodes and routers via the new SAL call. It also creates a read-only
      procfs file "/proc/sgi_sn/sn_topology" to export NUMA topology and Altix
      hardware inventory.
      
      > What tools are using this?
       
      Performance Co-Pilot http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp  in particular,
      pmshub, shubstats and linkstat. Numerous other users include anything
      that needs knowledge of numa topology/interconnect in order to perform
      well, e.g. mpt. BTW I have not exported any API functions .. at this
      point I don't think we need any modules to call the API.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Goodwin <markgw@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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