diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
index e80f291472a4158535e44ed9afac24f8400453b8..3987e4408f75fc02266eb8ae805aef9831155f59 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)) {
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/probe_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/probe_64.c
index 65edc180fc8297be82347bec05e3cd62d155a86d..450fe2064a1411909b53e2e6ca818d446c4bca78 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/probe_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/probe_64.c
@@ -64,15 +64,13 @@ void __init default_setup_apic_routing(void)
 			apic = &apic_x2apic_phys;
 		else
 			apic = &apic_x2apic_cluster;
-		printk(KERN_INFO "Setting APIC routing to %s\n", apic->name);
 	}
 #endif
 
-	if (apic == &apic_flat) {
-		if (max_physical_apicid >= 8)
+	if (apic == &apic_flat && num_processors > 8)
 			apic = &apic_physflat;
-		printk(KERN_INFO "Setting APIC routing to %s\n", apic->name);
-	}
+
+	printk(KERN_INFO "Setting APIC routing to %s\n", apic->name);
 
 	if (is_vsmp_box()) {
 		/* need to update phys_pkg_id */