Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: enable x2apic early at the first point | From | Suresh Siddha <> | Date | Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:28:38 -0800 |
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On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 14:42 -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: > Ingo want to decouple that x2apic and intr_remapping. > it seems it does work with x2apic without intr_remapping in one of setup.
x2apic with out intr-remapping is not architectural. Even when we have < 255 logical cpu's, logical x2apic id's will be greater than 16 bits even on a single/two socket systems and this will break interrupt delivery. Please look at the x2apic logical destination mode definition in the SDM (Section 9.7.2.3 and 9.7.2.4 in my copy of SDM Vol3a)
While it might work in certain configurations (for example, physical mode with < 8 bit apicids), it is not architectural and implementation dependent, which may break in future generations.
And also, logical x2apic mode has more advantages compared to physical mode (like using lowest priority delivery mode etc).
I will post couple of patches, which revert's Gleb's patch and another fix for the early boot failure issue, tomorrow.
thanks, suresh
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