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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:38:21 +0200
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
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Subject: Re: [patch v2 21/38] x86/cpu: Provide cpu_init/parse_topology()
On Mon, Jul 31 2023 at 15:27, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 02:34:39PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> This collides massively with the other work I'm doing, which uses the
>> MADT provided information to actually evaluate various topology related
>> things upfront and later during bringup. Thats badly needed because lots
>> of todays infrastructure is based on heuristics and guesswork.
>>
>> But it seems I wasted a month on reworking all of this just to be
>> stopped cold in the tracks by completely undocumented and unnecessary
>> hyper-v abuse.
>>
>> So if Hyper-V insists on abusing the initial APIC ID as read from CPUID
>> for topology information related to L3, then hyper-v should override the
>> cache topology mechanism and not impose this insanity on the basic
>> topology evaluation infrastructure.
>
> So I'm very tempted to suggest you continue with the topology rewrite
> and let Hyper-V keep the pieces. They're very clearly violating the SDM.
>
> Thing as they stand are untenable, the whole topology thing as it exists
> today is an untenable shitshow.
>
> Michael, is there anything you can do early (as in MADT parse early) to
> fix up the APIC-IDs?
I don't think so.
Michael, can you please provide me a table of:
APICID (real/MADT) APICID (CPUID)
from one of the tinker VMs please?
Thanks,
tglx
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