Re: [PATCH 2/2] x2apic, cluster: use all the members of one clusterspecified in the smp_affinity mask for the interrupt desintation

[Ingo Molnar]

* Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If the HW implements round-robin interrupt delivery, this 
> enables multiple cpu's (which are part of the user specified 
> interrupt smp_affinity mask and belong to the same x2apic 
> cluster) to service the interrupt.

Could/should we do something similar for regular APICs as well? 
They too support masks and LowestPrio delivery - and doing that 
will increase test coverage rather significantly.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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