linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 8/9] x86/apic: match destination id with destination mode

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Message-ID: <m1vdmiaif7.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
Date:	Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:45:00 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	"Pan\, Jacob jun" <jacob.jun.pan@...el.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] x86/apic: match destination id with destination mode

"Pan, Jacob jun" <jacob.jun.pan@...el.com> writes:

>>>From 791a44040dde6670f90a729cf91ed302d84b875a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...el.com>
> Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 10:51:08 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] x86/apic: match destination id with destination mode
>
> current code assigns logical destination IDs regardless of
> destination modes, this is not a problem since we only use logical
> delivery so far. but it could be a problem with platforms only
> supports physical mode  

The description of this patch is nonsense.

Linux runs on several systems that only support physical ids.
The have > 8 processors.

Eric
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