I wonder if you can make the bsp can start the APs callin in the same
time, and make it asynchronous, So you make spare 2s or more.
YH
On 8/10/05, yhlu <[email protected]> wrote:
> In LinuxBIOS, we could init_ecc asynchronous and the time reduced from
> 8x to 2.1x for 8 ways system. 1x mean 5s for 4G in one cpu. If 16G
> will take 20s.
>
> for TSC_SYNC asynchronous maybe you can get back 0.1s...
>
> YH
>
> On 8/10/05, Andi Kleen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > So my patch still can be used with Eric's, It just serialize the
> > > TSC_SYNC between cpu.
> > >
> > > I wonder it you can refine to make TSC_SYNC serialize that beteen CPU.
> > > That will make
> > > CPU X:synchronized TSC ...
> > > in fixed postion and timming.
> >
> > Why would we want that?
> >
> > Boot time is critical so it's better to do things asynchronous.
> >
> > -Andi
> >
>
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