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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	"ananth@in.ibm.com" <ananth@in.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] x86: using logical flat for amd cpu too.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:16:16 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001111913570.17145@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1263264483-3959-2-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org>



On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> tested that amd support logical flat too when cpus num <= 8 and even
> bsp apic id > 8
> 
> so could remove vendor check...

At least this one makes code simpler.

What was the background for thinking that AMD didn't support the same APIC 
addressing models? If there really is some issue external to the CPU's 
themselves, whatever problem was attributed to AMD might be the same (or 
similar) problem that Ananth had.

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-12  3:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-12  2:48 [RFC PATCH 1/4] use nr_cpus= to set nr_cpu_ids early Yinghai Lu
2010-01-12  2:48 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] x86: using logical flat for amd cpu too Yinghai Lu
2010-01-12  3:16   ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2010-01-12  8:47     ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-12  8:27   ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2010-01-12 22:50     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-13  4:53       ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2010-01-12  2:48 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] x86: according to nr_cpu_ids to decide if need to leave logical flat Yinghai Lu
2010-01-12  3:20   ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-12  8:50     ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-12  2:48 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] x86: use dmi check to treat disabled cpus as hotplug cpus Yinghai Lu
2010-01-12  3:13   ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-12  8:59     ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-12 15:19       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-12 17:54         ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-12 18:13         ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-12 18:24           ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-12 19:19             ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-12  9:15     ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-12  9:46     ` Ingo Molnar
2010-01-12 16:14     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-01-12 16:26       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-12 17:17         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-01-12  3:06 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] use nr_cpus= to set nr_cpu_ids early Linus Torvalds

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