Re: [PATCH][for 2.6.28] powerpc: Use physical cpu id when settingthe processor affinity

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Tue Dec 02 2008 - 16:31:29 EST


On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 13:37 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> In the CONFIG_SMP case the irq_choose_cpu() code was returning back
> a logical cpu id not the physical id. We were writing that directly
> into the HW register.
>
> We need to be calling get_hard_smp_processor_id() so irq_choose_cpu()
> always returns a physical cpu id.

That will probably do for now but if we ever move that routine to
generic code, I'd rather have the caller do the conversion.

Cheers,
Ben.


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