On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 06:32 -0600, Tim Gardner wrote: > From: Andreas Herrmann <[email protected]> > > BIOS will switch off the corresponding feature flag on family > 15h models 10h-1fh non-desktop CPUs. > > The topology extension CPUID leafs are required to detect which > cores belong to the same compute unit. (thread siblings mask is > set accordingly and also correct information about L1i and L2 > cache sharing depends on this). > > W/o this patch we wouldn't see which cores belong to the same > compute unit and also cache sharing information for L1i and L2 > would be incorrect on such systems. [...]
Added to the queue, thanks. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.
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