Re: [PATCH]: x86: use acpi flags for apic mapping

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Thu Jun 03 2010 - 17:32:38 EST


On 06/03/2010 02:14 PM, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>
>> It seems we don't need this patch.
>>
>> so all system should support phys apic mode, but system with less 8 cpus is supposed to support cluster mode for better performance.
>>
>> current kernel will try to use cluster mode if nr_cpus is less than 8.
>>
>> some system have problem like IBM and NCR only support phys apic mode even cpus < 8 ...
>>
>>
>
> What about systems that have set the ACPI values? We just ignore those
> then?
we checked the value to see if it only support phys apic mode.

Yinghai
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