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Re: [PATCH] SMP initialization: detection and enumeration
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Richard Braun |
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Re: [PATCH] SMP initialization: detection and enumeration |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Jul 2020 23:12:31 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) |
On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 10:09:01PM +0100, Jessica Clarke wrote:
> > It's physically memory mapped to the local APIC address space, but
> > because of that, it's also not optimal. All systems I know use a scheme
> > similar to TLS, i.e. using the fs or gs segment register, to fetch
> > a per-CPU structure and from it, per-CPU data. This avoids relying on
> > hardware running at a lower frequency than the CPU.
>
> You need to do that anyway if you want any guarantees over _what_ the
> IDs are (normally you want 0 for the BSP, 1 to N-1 for the APs).
Not really. You can build a CPU ID table on the BSP, and associate CPU IDs
with all local APIC IDs discovered, and use that look-up table later
to obtain a CPU ID from the local APIC ID of the CPU running the code.
It's just too slow compared to using a segment register.
--
Richard Braun
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- Re: [PATCH] SMP initialization: detection and enumeration, Almudena Garcia, 2020/07/30
- Re: [PATCH] SMP initialization: detection and enumeration, Samuel Thibault, 2020/07/30
- Re: [PATCH] SMP initialization: detection and enumeration, Richard Braun, 2020/07/30
- Re: [PATCH] SMP initialization: detection and enumeration, Jessica Clarke, 2020/07/30
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- Re: [PATCH] SMP initialization: detection and enumeration, Samuel Thibault, 2020/07/30
- Re: [PATCH] SMP initialization: detection and enumeration, Almudena Garcia, 2020/07/30
- Re: [PATCH] SMP initialization: detection and enumeration, Samuel Thibault, 2020/07/30
- Re: [PATCH] SMP initialization: detection and enumeration, Almudena Garcia, 2020/07/30
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