Messages in this thread | | | From | Russ Anderson <> | Subject | Re: [patch] Mixed Madison and Montecito system support | Date | Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:44:51 -0500 (CDT) |
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Siddha, Suresh B wrote: > > I added it so that these entries will not confuse users of a non-smt/mc > systems. But mixed type of processors and cpu hotplug really complicates the > things..
Yes, it does. :-)
> May be a check of something like "is this platform capable of > supporting any multi-core/multi-threaded processor package?" helps.. > > As there is no well defined mechanism to find out that and for simplicity > reasons, we should probably go with Tony's suggestion. > > Russ I can post a patch, removing both smt_capable() and mc_capable() > checks.
Yes, please do.
> Today this sysfs variable is not documented. But when it happens, we > need to clearly document that these variables have no meaning when > the system doesn't have cpus with threads/cores.
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