Re: [patch 41/58] x86/apic: Add max_apic_id member

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Tue, Jul 18 2023 at 09:06, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 at 00:47, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> The confusing part here is the physical APIC ID vs. the destination
>> mode.
>
> Actually, no, what confused me here ended up being that I didn't see
> any other limit checking at all for the flat mode, and then I was
> "this cannot possibly work up to that limit".
>
> But it turns out that the limit checking appears to be in the
> "physflat" case, not in the simple flat case.
>
> IOW, the physflat probe function says "I'll take it" whenever
> num_possible_cpus() > 8", and that seems to be what then limits the
> flat mode to a max of 8 cpus. So the limit was just in another place
> than I expected.

Right. And obviously you managed to confuse me too :)