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From: hch@caldera.de (Christoph Hellwig)
To: rusty@rustcorp.com.au (Rusty Russell)
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        suganuma <suganuma@hpc.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>,
        Anton Blanchard <antonb@au.ibm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] HotPlug CPU patch against 2.4.5
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In article <m15BG8K-001UIwC@mozart> you wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> 	http://sourceforge.net/projects/lhcs/
>
> 	Version 0.3 (untested) of the HotPlug CPU Patch is out, with
> ia64 and x86 support.  Bringing CPUs down and up is as simple as:
>
> 	# Down...
> 	echo 0 > /proc/sys/cpu/1
> 	# Up...
>	echo 1 > /proc/sys/cpu/1

Wouldn't /proc/sys/cpu/<num>/enable be better?  This way other per-cpu
sysctls could be added more easily...

</nitpick>

	Christoph

-- 
Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.