Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Jun 2002 08:06:58 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_NR_CPUS, redux |
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> Ugh let's stop this thread now. Two points: > > (a) imo, the kernel should support out-of-the-box the maximum > number of CPUs it can handle. Be lucky we now have a > configure option to change that. But that does not matter.. > > (b) Right now it is 32. Now you can change it... if you want > to change the current behavior by _default_ why don't we > suggest that _after_ this is accepted into 2.5? I.e., one > battle at a time.
Indeed. And before that gets changed, it would be necessary to change the bootstrap procedure not to crash if you have more than NR_CPUS cpus (as Andrew reported it did), but instead to just not configure them ... much less troublesome.
M.
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