8.1-PRERELEASE: CPU packages not detected correctly

Andriy Gapon avg at icyb.net.ua
Fri Aug 27 17:33:16 UTC 2010


on 19/08/2010 20:26 Jung-uk Kim said the following:
> One thing I am not sure is whether those CPUID instructions are 
> executed on *real* CPUs or translated in HVM.  On top of that, I am 
> not even sure they will be executed on *correct* cores.  I bet they 
> won't.

Hmm, I have an impression that we try to detect the topology by doing stuff only
on BSP and that's why we handle properly only uniform topologies.  So that would
make your point about correct cores moot.
Am I mistaken?

-- 
Andriy Gapon


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