From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [patch x86/core] x86: allow number of additional hotplug CPUs to be set at compile time
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:12:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bpy3pdgs.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081001191945.4182d0be@redhat.com> (Chuck Ebbert's message of "Wed, 1 Oct 2008 19:19:45 -0400")
Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> writes:
> The default number of additional CPU IDs for hotplugging is determined
> by asking ACPI or mptables how many "disabled" CPUs there are in the
> system, but many systems get this wrong so that e.g. a uniprocessor
> machine gets an extra CPU allocated and never switches to single CPU
> mode.
You can set this with additional_cpus=... at boot time.
I don't think each runtime option needs a CONFIG option too.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-02 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-01 23:19 Chuck Ebbert
2008-10-02 8:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-02 19:30 ` [patch x86/core] x86: allow number of additional hotplug CPUs to be set at compile time, V2 Chuck Ebbert
2008-10-02 19:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-02 19:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-02 19:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-02 9:12 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-10-02 19:25 ` [patch x86/core] x86: allow number of additional hotplug CPUs to be set at compile time Chuck Ebbert
2008-10-02 19:44 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-02 20:09 ` Chuck Ebbert
2008-10-02 20:40 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-04 16:52 ` <PING> " Andi Kleen
2008-10-04 22:30 ` Chuck Ebbert
2008-10-05 10:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-05 14:52 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-10-05 15:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-05 15:51 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-10-05 15:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-05 20:39 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-05 21:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-10-05 22:45 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-05 20:28 ` Andi Kleen
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