Re: [patch 00/26] x64, x2apic/intr-remap: Interrupt-remapping and x2apic support

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Sat Jul 12 2008 - 04:22:30 EST


"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>>> also read the x2APIC spec pdf, it doesn't say anything about interrupt
>>> remapping...need to be used with x2apic...
>>
>> Clustered logical mode won't work as it requires > 16 bits of apicid.
>> So only flat physical mode will work.
>
> current read_apic_id in genx2apic_cluster and genx2apic_phys is the same...

There is a fixed defined mapping between logical & physical mappings,
so that may not be an issue.

A logical cluster apicid is encoded with the high 16bits being the
cluster number, and the low 16bits being a bitmap of which core
in the cluster to send the irq to. It sounded like a single
cluster can not span multiple sockets.

So in practice if you have 2 sockets you have a cluster id of 1.
Which means physical apic ids over 16 and logical apicids over 65536.

Eric
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