Re: [PATCH v6 07/11] x86/smpboot: Disable parallel boot for AMD CPUs

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On 4 February 2023 18:18:55 GMT, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> However...
>> 
>> Even though we *can* support non-X2APIC processors, we *might* want to
>> play it safe and not go back that far; only enabling parallel bringup
>> on machines with X2APIC which roughly correlates with "lots of CPUs"
>> since that's where the benefit is.
>
>I think that this is the right approach, at least on the initial patch series.
>KISS principle; do all the easy-but-important cases first, get it stable and working
>and in later series/kernels the range can be expanded.... if it matters.

Agreed. I'll split it to do it only with X2APIC for the initial series, and then hold the CPUID 0x1 part back for the next phase.




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