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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:06:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] use nr_cpus= to set nr_cpu_ids early
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On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
> on x86, before prefill_possible_map(), nr_cpu_ids will be NR_CPUS aka CONFIG_NR_CPUS
> 
> add nr_cpus= to set nr_cpu_ids. so we can simulate cpus <=8 on normal config.
> instead of change NR_CPUS directly.

Looks sane.

		Linus