Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265790AbUFORjW (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 13:39:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265787AbUFORjW (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 13:39:22 -0400 Received: from dbl.q-ag.de ([213.172.117.3]:22160 "EHLO dbl.q-ag.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265790AbUFORjO (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 13:39:14 -0400 Message-ID: <40CF33D6.80302@colorfullife.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:37:26 +0200 From: Manfred Spraul User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr-FR; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: pj@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lse-tech , Anton Blanchard Subject: Re: NUMA API observations References: <40CE824D.9020300@colorfullife.com> <20040615110320.GD50463@colin2.muc.de> In-Reply-To: <20040615110320.GD50463@colin2.muc.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 695 Lines: 18 Andi Kleen wrote: >Or maybe just a sysctl. But it doesn't really help because >applications have to work with older kernels. > What's the largest number of cpus that are supported right now? 256? First call sysctl or whatever. If it fails, then glibc can assume 256. If someone installs an old kernel on a new computer then it's his own fault. The API is broken, we should fix it now - it will only get more painful in the future. -- Manfred - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/