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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@ans.pl>
Cc: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	ashok.raj@intel.com, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com,
	rajesh.shah@intel.com
Subject: Re: More than 8 CPUs detected and CONFIG_X86_PC cannot handle it on 2.6.16-rc6
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 14:30:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060312143053.530ef6c9.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603122206110.19689@bizon.gios.gov.pl>

Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@ans.pl> wrote:
>
> > Actually, this warning should be seen on many other systems on well. We
>  > use the bigsmp when there _or_ more than 8 CPUs or CPU_HOTPLUG is used.
>  > So, in that sense the message is wrong, it should also have CPU_HOTPLUG in
>  > there. Or we should make CPU_HOTPLUG depend on GENERIC_ARCH or auto select
>  > GENERIC_ARCH with hotplug at the CONFIG level.
> 
>  Why? I have exactly 4 HT CPUs (2 cores), no more. I use CPU hotplug so I 
>  can disable or enable any of them when I want to. So, this is a classic 
>  SMP system and 2.6.15 is totally happy with this. Or is there any other 
>  (better?) way to disable/enable CPU (especially second logical CPU from 
>  HT) on running systems?

Maybe we should have:

	if (num_possible_cpus() <= 8)
		dont_do_any_of_that_stuff();

That's assuming that hotplug-cpu-capable platforms are correctly setting
cpu_possible_map.  Do they?

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-12 22:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-12  2:04 Krzysztof Oledzki
2006-03-12  5:03 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-12 11:04   ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2006-03-12 11:25     ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-12 13:05       ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2006-03-12 15:35         ` Venkatesh Pallipadi
2006-03-12 21:13           ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2006-03-12 22:30             ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-03-13 19:36               ` Ashok Raj
2006-03-13 19:51                 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-13 20:05                   ` Ashok Raj
2006-03-13 22:22                     ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-13 23:04                       ` Ashok Raj
2006-03-15  5:44                         ` Nathan Lynch
2006-03-15  6:18                           ` Shaohua Li
2006-03-15  7:31                             ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-15  9:37                               ` [PATCH] No need to protect current->group_info in sys_getgroups(), in_group_p() and in_egroup_p() Eric Dumazet
2006-03-20 19:09                                 ` [PATCH] Use unsigned int types for a faster bsearch Eric Dumazet
2006-03-22  5:06                                   ` [PATCH] Use __read_mostly on some hot fs variables Eric Dumazet
2006-03-22  5:15                                     ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-22  6:23                                     ` [RFC, PATCH] avoid some atomics in open()/close() for monothreaded processes Eric Dumazet
2006-03-22  6:41                                       ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-22  6:59                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2006-03-22  7:03                                           ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-15 18:09                               ` More than 8 CPUs detected and CONFIG_X86_PC cannot handle it on 2.6.16-rc6 Ashok Raj
2006-03-15 10:50 Chuck Ebbert
2006-03-15 15:44 ` Krzysztof Oledzki

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