linux-stable/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/Kconfig
Michael Neuling d4e58e5928 powerpc/powernv: Enable POWER8 doorbell IPIs
This patch enables POWER8 doorbell IPIs on powernv.

Since doorbells can only IPI within a core, we test to see when we can use
doorbells and if not we fall back to XICS.  This also enables hypervisor
doorbells to wakeup us up from nap/sleep via the LPCR PECEDH bit.

Based on tests by Anton, the best case IPI latency between two threads dropped
from 894ns to 512ns.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-06-11 17:05:12 +10:00

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config PPC_POWERNV
depends on PPC64 && PPC_BOOK3S
bool "IBM PowerNV (Non-Virtualized) platform support"
select PPC_NATIVE
select PPC_XICS
select PPC_ICP_NATIVE
select PPC_P7_NAP
select PPC_PCI_CHOICE if EMBEDDED
select EPAPR_BOOT
select PPC_INDIRECT_PIO
select PPC_UDBG_16550
select PPC_SCOM
select ARCH_RANDOM
select CPU_FREQ
select CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE
select CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE
select CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE
select CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND
select CPU_FREQ_GOV_CONSERVATIVE
select PPC_DOORBELL
default y
config PPC_POWERNV_RTAS
depends on PPC_POWERNV
bool "Support for RTAS based PowerNV platforms such as BML"
default y
select PPC_ICS_RTAS
select PPC_RTAS