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From: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
To: James Cleverdon <jamesclv@us.ibm.com>
Cc: YhLu <YhLu@tyan.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
	"'Mikael Pettersson'" <mikpe@csd.uu.se>,
	Matt_Domsch@dell.com, discuss@x86-64.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Subject: Re: 256 apic id for amd64
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:28:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050110192846.A30630@unix-os.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200501101642.41783.jamesclv@us.ibm.com>; from jamesclv@us.ibm.com on Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 04:42:41PM -0800

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 04:42:41PM -0800, James Cleverdon wrote:
> Personally, I don't have any problem with replacing the non-power-of-2 
> code with "hweight32(c->x86_num_cores - 1)", but folks at Intel have 
> been very insistent that it may be needed in the future.  Maybe Suresh 
> can speak up about Intel's interests here.

IA32 SDM vol3 section 7.7.5 talks about the recommended way of computing
physical processor package id. Current kernel code which is doing this, 
can definitely be made more readable. I will do that when ever I get
a chance.

thanks,
suresh

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-11  3:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-10 19:41 256 apic id for amd64 YhLu
2005-01-10 19:43 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-11  0:42 ` James Cleverdon
2005-01-11  3:28   ` Siddha, Suresh B [this message]
2005-01-11  4:42     ` Andi Kleen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-01-11 19:11 YhLu
2005-01-11 19:04 YhLu
2005-01-10 20:48 YhLu
2005-01-10 20:46 YhLu
2005-01-11  5:36 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-10 20:37 YhLu
2005-01-10 20:09 YhLu
2005-01-10 20:18 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-10 18:48 YhLu
2005-01-10 18:45 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-10 18:44 Andi Kleen
2005-01-11  4:04 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2005-01-11  4:39   ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-11 17:50   ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-08  2:53 YhLu
2005-01-09 23:56 ` James Cleverdon
2005-01-08  2:37 Mikael Pettersson
2005-01-08 15:46 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-08  1:50 YhLu
2005-01-08  0:50 YhLu
2005-01-08  0:42 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-08  0:28 YhLu
2005-01-08  0:26 ` James Cleverdon
2005-01-08  0:34   ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-08  0:04 YhLu
2005-01-08  0:12 ` James Cleverdon
2005-01-07 21:44 YhLu
2005-01-07 22:18 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-07 21:14 YhLu
2005-01-07 21:12 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-07 19:43 YhLu
2005-01-07 19:40 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-07 18:27 YhLu
2005-01-07 19:29 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-07 18:19 YhLu
2005-01-07 19:29 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-07  2:53 YhLu
2005-01-07 12:24 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-08  1:30   ` James Cleverdon
2005-01-07  1:06 YhLu
2005-01-07 12:44 ` Andi Kleen
2004-12-30 23:19 YhLu
2004-12-30 23:16 YhLu
2004-12-29  4:43 YhLu
2004-12-30 18:45 ` Andi Kleen
2004-12-30 22:56   ` Matt Domsch
2004-12-30 23:26     ` Andi Kleen

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