APPLIED: [SRU][Bionic][PATCH 0/1] Revert "powerpc/powernv: Increase memory block size to 1GB on radix"

Khaled Elmously khalid.elmously at canonical.com
Tue Oct 23 06:31:03 UTC 2018


On 2018-09-27 16:20:23 , Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1792102
> 
> == SRU Justification ==
> Due to a recent change for powernv, now the total GPU memory is no longer 
> available. This impacts performance for any application/benchmark has a 
> large GPU memory utilization.
> 
> IBM is requesting mainlien commit 7acf50e4efa6 in Bionic, which reverts
> mainline commit 4b5d62ca17a1.
> 
> == Fix ==
> 7acf50e4efa6 ("Revert "powerpc/powernv: Increase memory block size to 1GB on radix"")
> 
> == Regression Potential ==
> Low.  This is a revert that was also done upstream due to a regression.
> Limited to powerpc.
> 
> == Test Case ==
> A test kernel was built with this patch and tested by the original bug reporter.
> The bug reporter states the test kernel resolved the bug.
> 
> Balbir Singh (1):
>   Revert "powerpc/powernv: Increase memory block size to 1GB on radix"
> 
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c | 10 +---------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
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