Re: Comments about SMP

[Almudena Garcia]

>>  It appears mach_ncpus is hardcoded at compile time, maybe you just need
> to detect this value via ACPI (?) 

Yes, this is the idea. I set mach_ncpus to maximum value to avoid broken the 
cpu structure arrays. 

But It's not the only that I need to enable cpus. I also need to find their 
APIC structures (Local APIC and IOAPIC), to send IPI and communicate the cpus.  

El Lunes 11 de marzo de 2019, Damien Zammit escribió:
> Hi Almudena,
> 
> > El dom., 10 mar. 2019 a las 18:35, Samuel Thibault
> > (<samuel.thibault@gnu.org <mailto:samuel.thibault@gnu.org>>) escribió:
> >     Adam Van Ymeren, le dim. 10 mars 2019 13:08:23 -0400, a ecrit:
> >     > I don't think that's necessary.  The process doesn't have to
> >     initiated from gnumach.  Hurd could have an SMP server that is
> >     started at boot, parses acpi tables and calls in to Mach to
> >     initialize the additional cores and start scheduling on them.
> > 
> >     That's the idea.
> 
> I'm not sure if it is required to send IPI etc, doesn't the BIOS set up
> the extra cores?  I've seen code in coreboot that sets up the extra
> cores.  I thought you only need the ACPI tables to know how many cores
> to use and pass this value somehow to Mach (?)
> 
> See
> https://github.com/AlmuHS/GNUMach_SMP/blob/5bceb7fc20176b75ed3284ca3fc9856dfe2cd158/configfrag.ac#L33
> 
> It appears mach_ncpus is hardcoded at compile time, maybe you just need
> to detect this value via ACPI (?) Maybe someone else can comment on how
> "broken" is multiprocessor support as specified in that inline comment.
> 
> Damien
>

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