1 files changed, 1 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
index e80f291472a4..3987e4408f75 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
@@ -61,12 +61,6 @@ unsigned int boot_cpu_physical_apicid = -1U;
 
 /*
  * The highest APIC ID seen during enumeration.
- *
- * This determines the messaging protocol we can use: if all APIC IDs
- * are in the 0 ... 7 range, then we can use logical addressing which
- * has some performance advantages (better broadcasting).
- *
- * If there's an APIC ID above 8, we use physical addressing.
  */
 unsigned int max_physical_apicid;
 
@@ -1898,14 +1892,7 @@ void __cpuinit generic_processor_info(int apicid, int version)
                 max_physical_apicid = apicid;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-        /*
-         * Would be preferable to switch to bigsmp when CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y
-         * but we need to work other dependencies like SMP_SUSPEND etc
-         * before this can be done without some confusion.
-         * if (CPU_HOTPLUG_ENABLED || num_processors > 8)
-         *       - Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
-         */
-        if (max_physical_apicid >= 8) {
+        if (num_processors > 8) {
                 switch (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor) {
                 case X86_VENDOR_INTEL:
                         if (!APIC_XAPIC(version)) {