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Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 08:08:12 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: x86_64: MAX_LOCAL_APIC way too big?
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* Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> wrote:

> For 64-bit kernels, MAX_LOCAL_APIC is 32k:
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
> ...
> #else
> # define MAX_IO_APICS 128
> # define MAX_LOCAL_APIC 32768
> #endif
> 
> (It seems to be a bit of a misnomer, it's not a maximum
> number of APICs we support, it's the highest APIC _id_
> we support.)

Gah, that's a pretty serious misnomer - so it should be fixed regardless of 
the outcome of the sizing discussion.

Thanks,

	Ingo