Changeset 64234 in vbox for trunk/src/VBox/Runtime/r3

Timestamp:

Oct 13, 2016 10:10:42 AM (8 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

Message:

IPRT: Implemented processor group support for the ring-0 code.

File:

• trunk/src/VBox/Runtime/r3/win/mp-win.cpp (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/VBox/Runtime/r3/win/mp-win.cpp

@@ -109 +109 @@
      *
      * We ASSUME the the GroupInfo index is the same as the group number.
+     *
      * We ASSUME there are no inactive groups, because otherwise it will
      * be difficult to tell how many possible CPUs we can have and do a
-     * reasonable CPU ID/index partitioning.
+     * reasonable CPU ID/index partitioning. [probably bad assumption]
+     *
+     * We ASSUME that the kernel processor indexes are assigned in group order,
+     * which we match here with our own ID+index assignments.  This claim is
+     * verified by initterm-r0drv-nt.cpp.
      *
      * Note! We will die if there are too many processors!