Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] hmp: allow cpu index for "info lapic"

[wang.yi59]

>On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 21:49:37 -0400

>Yi Wang <address@hidden> wrote:

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>> Add [vcpu] index support for hmp command "info lapic", which is

>> useful when debugging ipi and so on. Current behavior is not

>> changed when the parameter isn't specified.

>we shouldn't expose cpu_index to users anymore,

>

>I would suggest using to use real APIC ID here but we don't

>have monitor command that returns APIC IDs for present cpus.




Would you like to explain the reason we shouldn't use cpu_index any

more, which is more straightforward than socket-id/core-id/thread-id?

As Eduardo wrote in the next reply, "CPU #<n>" is already a perfectly

good identifier for a human interface :-)

Many thanks.





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Best wishes

Yi Wang