From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: "Pan\, Jacob jun" <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] x86/apic: match destination id with destination mode
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:45:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1vdmiaif7.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43F901BD926A4E43B106BF17856F07556412B7E7@orsmsx508.amr.corp.intel.com> (Jacob jun Pan's message of "Thu\, 25 Jun 2009 17\:15\:12 -0700")
"Pan, Jacob jun" <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com> writes:
>>From 791a44040dde6670f90a729cf91ed302d84b875a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com>
> Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 10:51:08 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] x86/apic: match destination id with destination mode
>
> current code assigns logical destination IDs regardless of
> destination modes, this is not a problem since we only use logical
> delivery so far. but it could be a problem with platforms only
> supports physical mode
The description of this patch is nonsense.
Linux runs on several systems that only support physical ids.
The have > 8 processors.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-26 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-26 0:15 [PATCH 8/9] x86/apic: match destination id with destination mode Pan, Jacob jun
2009-06-26 7:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-26 19:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-26 20:59 ` Pan, Jacob jun
2009-06-26 21:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-27 17:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-26 19:45 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2009-06-26 21:21 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-06-26 21:41 ` Pan, Jacob jun
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