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Commit 50fb55ac authored by Cliff Wickman's avatar Cliff Wickman Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86, UV: Disable BAU on network congestion



The numalink network can become so congested that TLB shootdown
using the Broadcast Assist Unit becomes slower than using IPI's.

In that case, disable the use of the BAU for a period of time.
The period is tunable.  When the period expires the use of the
BAU is re-enabled. A count of these actions is added to the
statistics file.

Signed-off-by: default avatarCliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: gregkh@suse.de
LKML-Reference: <E1OJvNy-0004a4-0a@eag09.americas.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent e8e5e8a8
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