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Re: [Xen-devel] VCPU cores & sockets

To: Jean Guyader <jean.guyader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] VCPU cores & sockets
From: Ben Guthro <bguthro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:39:13 -0400
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my mistake - I was looking at a rather old version of the file

Jean Guyader wrote on 06/17/2008 11:57 AM:
Ben Guthro wrote:
so...if I read your patch, and the intel manual properly -
CPUID.4:EAX[31:26] + 1 is the number of cores...

...
#           '4:eax=0x3,ebx=0x0,ecx=0x0,edx=0x0',
#  '0x80000000:eax=0x3,ebx=0x0,ecx=0x0,edx=0x0']
...

This would set the EAX of leaf 4 to 3 - indicating a dual core processor?

Am I understanding that config file correctly?


My previous patch has nothing to do with that.
What you are looking for is just above in this file.


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