Re: [PATCH] x86/CPU/AMD: Fix LLC ID bit-shift calculation

From: Suthikulpanit, Suravee
Date: Mon Jun 18 2018 - 14:46:25 EST


Boris,

On 6/18/2018 1:23 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 01:14:11PM -0500, Suthikulpanit, Suravee wrote:
This enumeration is only for the family17h model 00-1Fh of hardware
revision. The patch is intended for the future revision of hardware.

I realized that but the same holds true for the future revision - there
you need to remove thread ID and core ID too, right?


Your understanding is correct. I was not sure about what you were referring to earlier. Basically, the number of threads sharing cache is used to calculate the amount of right-shifting of APIC ID, which results in removing the core and thread ID bits.

Suravee