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DateMon, 25 Feb 2008 14:05:45 -0800
From"Yinghai Lu" <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86_64: make amd quad core 8 socket system not be clustered_box v2
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Ravikiran Thirumalai
<kiran@scalemp.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:29:03PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
>  >On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 09:48:42PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>  >>>  >> quad core 8 socket system will have apic id lifting.the apic id range could
>  >> be [4, 0x23]. and apic_is_clustered_box will think that need to three clusters
>  >> and that is large than 2. So it is treated as clustered_box.>  >>  >Ok I see you chose the quick hack over doing it properly ...
>  >>  >>>  >> and will get>  >>>  >> Marking TSC unstable due to TSCs unsynchronized>  >>>  >> even the CPUs have X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC set.>  >>  >I doubt that will do the right thing on AMD based vSMP,
>  >which also required the cluster check on AMD iirc.>  >>>  Andi, Yes.  AMD based vSMPowered systems uses clustered APICs, and this
>  check base on cpu vendor id is not good :(.

please check if you happy with

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/24/273

Thanks

Yinghai Lu


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