linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86_64: make amd quad core 8 socket system not be clustered

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Message-id: <200802221102.31019.yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Date:	Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:02:30 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@....COM>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: make amd quad core 8 socket system not be
 clustered_box

On Friday 22 February 2008 04:25:18 am Andi Kleen wrote:
> Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@....COM> writes:
> 
> > quad core 8 socket system will have apic id lifting.the apic id range could
> > be [4, 0x23]. or [8, 0x27]. apic_is_clustered_box will think that need to three clusters
> > and that is large than 2. So it is treated as clustered_box.
> >
> > and will get
> >
> > Marking TSC unstable due to TSCs unsynchronized
> >
> > even the CPUs have X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC set.
> >
> > this patch offset back the apic before get apic clusterid.
> >
> > or use dmi to get apic_is_clustered?
> 
> The clustered check is for Summit and es7000 systems
> On 64bit systems it might be actually possible to trigger
> this based on SLIT instead. But you'll need to check with
> the IBM Summit/Unisys es7000 developers if that works or not
> 
> If you don't want to do that the safer way would be probably
> the check if there are holes between the CPUs APIC numbers.
> If yes then it's likely clustered mode. I think that would
> be better than to disable it unconditionally for apic lifting
> like your patches does.

so for that box [4, 0x23] still could be apic clustered? there is a hole [0,3]..

is their box using AMD cpu or not?

YH

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