Re: Anyone working on Octeon SMP?

On 1/29/25 06:23, Nick Hudson wrote:
> On 20/12/2024 22:01, Andrew Parker wrote:
>> Hi, I've been working towards getting a MULTIPROCESSOR build more stable
>> on my ER4 and would like to know if anyone else may be working on the 
>> same?
>>
>> I've found a few areas that were causing instability on my machine and
>> have some patches that help (but mostly just for debugging at this
>> point). If there's any interest in teaming up and exchanging ideas or
>> patches for SMP on Octeon please let me know.
> 
> Sure.
> 
> I've dropped the ball on this and said I had a couple of fixes in mind,
> but done nothing to share them. Hopefully we can make it stable.
> 
> Nick

Great!  I'm curious about what you have in mind for improvement.  I've 
mostly been looking around TLB invalidation and perhaps a missing memory 
barrier.

Anyway, I'll work on getting some stuff cleaned up and contact directly 
if that works for you.

-Andrew