> It seems we don't need this patch. > > so all system should support phys apic mode, but system with less 8 cpus is supposed to support cluster mode for better performance. > > current kernel will try to use cluster mode if nr_cpus is less than 8. > > some system have problem like IBM and NCR only support phys apic mode even cpus < 8 ... > > What about systems that have set the ACPI values? We just ignore those then? P. > Thanks > > Yinghai > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html