linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] - UV fix for size of hub mappings

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Message-ID: <20080927200214.GB28937@elte.hu>
Date:	Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:02:14 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>
Cc:	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] - UV fix for size of hub mappings


* Jack Steiner <steiner@....com> wrote:

> > x2apic support is available in tip/master, so it would be nice to 
> > glue UV to generic x2apic support properly and remove duplication 
> > and fixmes.
> 
> Good point. I'll send the fixes to you early next week. Recently, I've 
> been focused on a distro release which is still waiting for the x2apic 
> code. However, I don't need to wait to fix this upstream...

great!

> > For example, do we really need apic_x2apic_uv_x, or could we use 
> > apic_x2apic_cluster?
> 
> Unfortunately, we really need a uv genapic. IPIs on large UV systems 
> can't use an x2apic model. Because of the size of our large systems, 
> APICIDs in the cpu MSRs are not globally unique. We have a special 
> feature in the UV chipset that must be used for on large systems for 
> IPIs. Small & medium sized system can and do use the x2apic genapic.

not a problem really - it's not really complex or intrusive, we just 
want to make sure all unnecessary duplication is eliminated.

	Ingo
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