Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Jun 2005 12:26:41 -0700 | From | "Siddha, Suresh B" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.12-rc5 is broken in nvidia Ck804 Opteron MB/with dual cor e dual way |
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On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 03:03:50PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:56:25AM -0700, YhLu wrote: > > Really?, smp_num_siblings is global variable and initially is set 1. > > Why shouldn't it be ? It would only make sense to make it > non-global if we supported a configuration where different > CPUs had different numbers of siblings, which we don't. > (And I'm fairly sure that AMD/Intel don't/won't either)
It will help if someone uses "maxcpus" boot param or if someone wants to disable/enable certain logical siblings using HOTPLUG.
That is conceptually more cleaner too. Will do it post 2.6.12.
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