From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC -tip] x86,apic -- reduce disable_apic usage
Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:30:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A50E323.6060109@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0907051737100.13862@eddie.linux-mips.org>
Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>
> How do you set cpu_has_apic for systems with discrete local APICs? The
> CPUID flag is not set in this case.
>
Well, should it be? We do set flags when they're appropriate to us, and
if the semantics are such as that is inappropriate we can set a custom bit.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-05 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-05 16:20 [RFC -tip] x86,apic -- reduce disable_apic usage Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-07-05 16:38 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-07-05 16:59 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-07-05 17:12 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-07-05 17:17 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-07-05 17:47 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-07-05 18:12 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-07-05 17:30 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-07-05 19:02 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-07-05 19:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-07-05 19:46 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-07-07 23:49 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-07-08 14:44 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
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