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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Zhang, Rui" <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
	"Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>,
	"zhang.jia@linux.alibaba.com" <zhang.jia@linux.alibaba.com>,
	"bp@alien8.de" <bp@alien8.de>,
	"dave.hansen@linux.intel.com" <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	"hpa@zytor.com" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V2 0/1] x86: cpu topology fix and question on x86_max_cores
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 10:00:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y/SIRmCE1KJdsRBT@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87edqkosty.ffs@tglx>

On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 11:49:45PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> > I thought of improving this by parsing all the valid APIC-IDs in MADT
> > during BSP bootup, and get such information by decoding the APIC-IDs
> > using the APIC-ID layout information retrieved from BSP. But this is
> > likely to be a fertile new source of bugs as Dave concerned.
> 
> The APIC-IDs are only usefull if there is an architected scheme how they
> are assigned. Is there such a thing?

Isn't that given through CPUID? Or are we worried each CPU will have
different values in the topology leafs?

We really should have added that CPUID uniformity sanity check a long
while ago :-(

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-21  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-20  3:28 [RFC PATCH V2 0/1] x86: cpu topology fix and question on x86_max_cores Zhang Rui
2023-02-20  3:28 ` [PATCH V2 1/1] x86/topology: fix erroneous smp_num_siblings on Intel Hybrid platform Zhang Rui
2023-02-20 11:22   ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-02-21  8:34     ` Zhang, Rui
2023-03-13  2:05       ` Zhang, Rui
2023-02-20 10:36 ` [RFC PATCH V2 0/1] x86: cpu topology fix and question on x86_max_cores Peter Zijlstra
2023-02-20 14:40   ` Zhang, Rui
2023-02-20 11:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-02-20 14:33   ` Zhang, Rui
2023-02-20 19:06     ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-02-20 22:52       ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-02-21  8:01       ` Zhang, Rui
2023-02-20 22:49     ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-02-21  8:26       ` Zhang, Rui
2023-03-07 16:10         ` Zhang, Rui
2023-03-08  2:46           ` Brown, Len
2023-02-21  9:00       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2023-02-21 10:09         ` Borislav Petkov

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