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Message-ID: <86802c440802230055w6f36fefbs327738df3ff920bd@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:55:18 -0800
From: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.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 Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
> Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
> >> Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >> > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
> >> >> > so for that box [4, 0x23] still could be apic clustered? there is a hole [0,3]..
> >> >>
> >> >> I meant holes between the CPUs only, not including the IO-APICs.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> > is their box using AMD cpu or not?
> >> >>
> >> >> Intel. AMD boxes don't really need clustered mode because they support
> >> >> bigflat mode.
> >> >
> >> > So DMI or exclude AMD CPU?
> >>
> >> Just check for holes between the cpus as I suggested earlier
> >
> > how about their system that is not full populated with CPU?
>
> I would expect the APIC IDs to be continuous then.
>
so those box will have apic id hole even they are fully poluated with cpu...?
YH
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