From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keir Fraser Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/apic: remove the legacy bigsmp APIC driver Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 13:49:38 +0100 Message-ID: References: <521DC69302000078000EEFB9@nat28.tlf.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta14.messagelabs.com ([193.109.254.103]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1VEfCx-0006Pc-Am for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:50:47 +0000 Received: by mail-wi0-f172.google.com with SMTP id ex4so3636109wid.17 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 05:50:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <521DC69302000078000EEFB9@nat28.tlf.novell.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Jan Beulich , Matt Wilson Cc: Andrew Cooper , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 28/08/2013 08:44, "Jan Beulich" wrote: >>>> On 27.08.13 at 23:34, Matt Wilson wrote: >> Agreed, sorry for the noise. What we can remove, however, is the DMI >> check for 32-bit only systems in the bigsmp code. > > Yes, feel free to send a cut down patch. > >> It's a bit confusing to call this mode "bigsmp" instead of "physical." >> Any thoughts on that? > > I'm not really certain which one is better - both express some > valid aspect. The current name is fine imo. -- Keir > Jan >