Re: [PATCH] x86_64: make amd quad core 8 socket system not be clustered_box

[Yinghai Lu]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>  > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  >> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>  >>  > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  >>  >>  > so for that box [4, 0x23] still could be apic clustered? there is a hole [0,3]..
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>  I meant holes between the CPUs only, not including the IO-APICs.
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>  > is their box using AMD cpu or not?
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>  Intel. AMD boxes don't really need clustered mode because they support
>  >>  >>  bigflat mode.
>  >>  >
>  >>  > So DMI or exclude AMD CPU?
>  >>
>  >>  Just check for holes between the cpus as I suggested earlier
>  >
>  > how about their system that is not full populated with CPU?
>
>  I would expect the APIC IDs to be continuous then.
>
so those box will have apic id hole even they are fully poluated with cpu...?

YH
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