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Re: [PATCH 20/21] X86_64, UV: Remove Obsolete GRU MMR address translation

From Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 20/21] X86_64, UV: Remove Obsolete GRU MMR address translation
Date 2016-04-28 11:00 +0200
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* Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> wrote:

>  	/*
> +	 * Send a noop message in order to deliver a cross-partition interrupt
> +	 * to the SSI that contains the target message queue. Normally, the
> +	 * interrupt is automatically delivered by hardware following mesq
> +	 * operations, but some error conditions require explicit delivery.
> +	 * The noop message will trigger delivery. Otherwise partition failures
>  	 * could cause unrecovered errors.
>  	 */

This is a properly structured comment.

> +		/* Don't indicate to the app to resend the message, as it's */
> +		/* already been successfully sent.  We simply send an OK */
> +		/* (rather than fail the send with MQE_UNEXPECTED_CB_ERR), */
> +		/* assuming that the other side is receiving enough */
> +		/* interrupts to get this message processed anyway. */

This is not...

Thanks,

	Ingo

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[PATCH 00/21] X86_64, UV: Update kernel for SGI UV4 support Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> - 2016-04-28 03:20 +0200
  [PATCH 20/21] X86_64, UV: Remove Obsolete GRU MMR address translation Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> - 2016-04-28 03:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 20/21] X86_64, UV: Remove Obsolete GRU MMR address  translation Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-04-28 11:00 +0200
  [PATCH 14/21] X86_64, UV: Fold blade info into per node hub info structs Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> - 2016-04-28 03:20 +0200
  [PATCH 07/21] X86_64, UV: Remove Support for UV1 Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> - 2016-04-28 03:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 07/21] X86_64, UV: Remove Support for UV1 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-04-28 10:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 07/21] X86_64, UV: Remove Support for UV1 Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> - 2016-04-29 00:00 +0200

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