x86, UV: Improve BAU performance and error recovery
- increase performance of the interrupt handler - release timed-out software acknowledge resources - recover from continuous-busy status due to a hardware issue - add a 'throttle' to keep a uvhub from sending more than a specified number of broadcasts concurrently (work around the hardware issue) - provide a 'nobau' boot command line option - rename 'pnode' and 'node' to 'uvhub' (the 'node' terminology is ambiguous) - add some new statistics about the scope of broadcasts, retries, the hardware issue and the 'throttle' - split off new function uv_bau_retry_msg() from uv_bau_process_message() per community coding style feedback. - simplify the argument list to uv_bau_process_message(), per community coding style feedback. Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <E1O25Z4-0004Ur-PB@eag09.americas.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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