I'm far from an expert on the subject, but my understanding is that the primary enhancement of x2apic over apic/xapic is 32-bit vs 8-bit addressability of the proc for interrupts. Apic/xapic should be capable of having 255 interrupt processors registered, which should be more than any of our laptops would need.
I'm far from an expert on the subject, but my understanding is that the primary enhancement of x2apic over apic/xapic is 32-bit vs 8-bit addressability of the proc for interrupts. Apic/xapic should be capable of having 255 interrupt processors registered, which should be more than any of our laptops would need.