From: Youquan Song <youquan.song@linux.intel.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Youquan Song <youquan.song@linux.intel.com>,
Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@linux.intel.com,
yinghai@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, apic: Enable x2APIC physical when cpu < 256 native
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 12:48:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130729164817.GA30371@linux-youquan.bj.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130725220122.GH18254@gmail.com>
> > Thanks Ingo!
> > The machines will be affected: CPU support x2APIC and CPU number < 256,
> > chipset does not support VT-d2 or VT-d is disabled in BIOS.
>
> I mean, can you guess what rough percentage of new systems
> shipping (or significant number of older systems already
> shipped) will be affected by this?
>
> My feeling is that this should be relatively rare (only
> when a user reconfigures the BIOS, etc.), but I might be
> wrong.
Sorry. I do not know what percentage of system shipped be affected.
I have encountered one affected machine which CPU support x2APIC but its
BIOS not support VT-d (BIOS also has no item to enable it). After apply
the patch, it works with X2APIC physical mode.
Of course, most of machine affected are in the case of disable VT-d in BIOS
by option or add intremap=off kernel option.
>From what I understand, the x2APIC physical mode should be compatiable
with legacy mode when CPU < 256 without support interrupt remapping.
I have tested many machines, both old and most recent machines and from desktop
to server, x2APIC physical mode works without interrupt remapping when CPU < 256.
Thanks
-Youquan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-29 5:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-12 1:22 [PATCH] x86, apic: Enable x2APIC physical when cpu < 256 native Youquan Song
2013-07-23 9:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-24 14:04 ` Youquan Song
2013-07-25 22:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-29 16:48 ` Youquan Song [this message]
2013-07-24 3:55 ` [tip:x86/apic] x86/apic: Enable x2APIC physical mode on native hardware too, when there are fewer than 256 CPUs tip-bot for Youquan Song
2013-07-24 4:24 ` [PATCH] x86, apic: Enable x2APIC physical when cpu < 256 native Yinghai Lu
2013-07-24 6:22 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-07-25 14:05 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-07-29 17:05 ` Youquan Song
2013-08-14 18:40 ` Youquan Song
2013-08-14 11:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-08-17 13:44 ` Youquan Song
2013-08-17 7:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-08-17 8:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-08-17 9:03 ` Joe Perches
2013-08-17 15:44 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-08-17 16:26 ` Joe Perches
2013-08-18 10:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-08-17 19:52 ` Youquan Song
2013-08-19 7:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-08-02 19:12 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-07-24 14:45 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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