linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86_64: use apic core id bits for core nums

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Message-Id: <200707211022.47859.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:22:47 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	joachim.deguara@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: use apic core id bits for core nums

On Saturday 21 July 2007 09:56:15 Yinghai Lu wrote:
> please check my version, we should use core id bits instead.
> 
> it should replace
> [PATCH for review] [37/48] x86_64: make k8topology multi-core aware

Yes, you're right the patch is not good. It should probably use 
information from the regular CPU setup code, not touch cpuid
directly

I'll drop it for now

-Andi
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