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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2011
Steven S. Chang, San Jose, CA (US);
Anshuman Thakur, Beaverton, OR (US);
Ramacharan Sundararaman, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Ramon Matas, Portland, OR (US);
Jay S. Lawlor, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Robert F. Netting, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Steven S. Chang, San Jose, CA (US);
Anshuman Thakur, Beaverton, OR (US);
Ramacharan Sundararaman, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Ramon Matas, Portland, OR (US);
Jay S. Lawlor, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Robert F. Netting, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Following a restart or a reboot of a system that includes a multi-core processor, the multi-core processor may assign each active and eligible core a unique advanced programmable interrupt controller (APIC) identifier (ID). Initialization logic may detect a state of each of the plurality of processing cores as active or inactive. The initialization logic may detect an attribute of each of the plurality of processing cores as eligible to be assigned an APIC ID or as ineligible to be assigned the APIC ID.