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From: Andreas Herrmann <herrmann.der.user@googlemail.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: x86, amd: Get multi-node CPU info from NodeId MSR instead of PCI config space
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:05:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091016130510.GF8387@alberich.amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091016130000.GC24518@elte.hu>

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 03:00:00PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Andreas Herrmann <herrmann.der.user@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > are there any such CPUs?
> > 
> > Only Magny-Cours so far.
> > 
> > > I.e. we want to know the effect of this patch on various models of 
> > > AMD CPUs - is the change really .32 safe? Does it solve any problem 
> > > that makes it .32 material versus being for .33?
> > 
> > IMHO getting rid of the PCI config space accesses as soon as possible 
> > is a benefit, I think.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> Is the patch an identity transformation? Or are there CPUs where the 
> information from the PCI config space is different from the MSR derived 
> one?

On production hardware it's an identity transformation.


Regards,
Andreas

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-16 13:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-16 12:22 x86, amd: Get multi-node CPU info from NodeId MSR instead of PCI config space Andreas Herrmann
2009-10-16 12:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-16 12:57   ` Andreas Herrmann
2009-10-16 13:00     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-16 13:05       ` Andreas Herrmann [this message]
2009-10-27  9:33 ` [PATCH RESEND] " Andreas Herrmann

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