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On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:25:31 +0100, Takashi Iwai said:

> We can use nr_cpu_ids instead of NR_CPUS.
> For a machine like 4096 CPUs, such an amount of memory is like a
> peanut :)

It's not peanuts if you're dealing with a distro kernel that's essentially
forced to compile with NR_CPUS=<some moby integer>, but booting on a single or
dual core system with possibly not even 1G of memory.


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