From 816afe4ff98ee10b1d30fd66361be132a0a5cee6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rusty Russell Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 17:29:49 +0930 Subject: x86/smp: Don't ever patch back to UP if we unplug cpus We still patch SMP instructions to UP variants if we boot with a single CPU, but not at any other time. In particular, not if we unplug CPUs to return to a single cpu. Paul McKenney points out: mean offline overhead is 6251/48=130.2 milliseconds. If I remove the alternatives_smp_switch() from the offline path [...] the mean offline overhead is 550/42=13.1 milliseconds Basically, we're never going to get those 120ms back, and the code is pretty messy. We get rid of: 1) The "smp-alt-once" boot option. It's actually "smp-alt-boot", the documentation is wrong. It's now the default. 2) The skip_smp_alternatives flag used by suspend. 3) arch_disable_nonboot_cpus_begin() and arch_disable_nonboot_cpus_end() which were only used to set this one flag. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Cc: Paul McKenney Cc: Suresh Siddha Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87vcgwwive.fsf@rustcorp.com.au Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index ad7e2e5088c1..7aef3345f739 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2638,9 +2638,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. smart2= [HW] Format: [,[,...,]] - smp-alt-once [X86-32,SMP] On a hotplug CPU system, only - attempt to substitute SMP alternatives once at boot. - smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port -- cgit v1.2.3