[SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS PATCH 2/2] allow CPUs to have non-contiguous Local APIC IDs (v2)

[Avi Kivity]

On 07/26/2012 05:16 PM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
>> > 
>> > It's possible to replace the atomic read of CountCPUs with the bitmap weight
>> > calculation on the loop, but: is it really worth it?
>> > 
>> Why not? This eliminates one more global state.
> 
> Maybe we can simply make it stop being global and be used only by the
> smp.c initialization code?
> 
> Even if the variable didn't exist yet, I think I would add it myself:
> it's simpler and more efficient to calculate the bitmap weight once,
> while filling the bitmap, than recalculating it every time on the
> while(cmos_smp_count) loop.

So you're spinning more efficiently?


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