Re: [PATCH 8/9] x86/apic: match destination id with destination mode

[Eric W. Biederman]

"Pan, Jacob jun" <jacob.jun.pan@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>>From 791a44040dde6670f90a729cf91ed302d84b875a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@xxxxxxxxx>
> 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
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