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Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: Reduce MAX_LOCAL_APIC and MAX_IO_APICS

From Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: Reduce MAX_LOCAL_APIC and MAX_IO_APICS
Date 2015-09-30 17:20 +0200
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On Fri, 25 Sep 2015, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>  
> +config MAX_LAPIC_ID
> +	int "Maximum APIC ID"
> +	range 8 32768
> +	default "8"
> +	---help---
> +	  Use this option to set maximum allowed Local APIC ID higher than
> +	  maximum number of CPUs. This may be necessary for machines
> +	  with large number of processor sockets and non-contiguous
> +	  LAPIC numbering.
> +	  This setting will be automatically rounded up, if necessary.

This is wrong. If you would limit the APIC IDs then you really break
stuff. You can only limit the number of APICs.

ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x02] enabled)

And that's not a really large machine..

Thanks,

	tglx
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[PATCH RFC] x86: Reduce MAX_LOCAL_APIC and MAX_IO_APICS Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> - 2015-09-25 22:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: Reduce MAX_LOCAL_APIC and MAX_IO_APICS Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2015-09-30 17:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: Reduce MAX_LOCAL_APIC and MAX_IO_APICS Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> - 2015-09-30 18:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: Reduce MAX_LOCAL_APIC and MAX_IO_APICS Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com> - 2015-09-30 19:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: Reduce MAX_LOCAL_APIC and MAX_IO_APICS Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2015-09-30 19:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: Reduce MAX_LOCAL_APIC and MAX_IO_APICS Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com> - 2015-09-30 19:20 +0200

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