Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:39:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, tj@kernel.org,
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       linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, andi@firstfloor.org, hpa@zytor.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] percpu: generalize first chunk allocators and improve
 lpage NUMA support
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On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> Yeah, it's a bug for something like a virtual environment which
> boots generic kernels that might have 64 possible CPUs (on a true
> 64-way system), but which will have fewer in practice.

A machine (and a virtual environment) can indicate via the BIOS tables or
ACPI that there are less "possible" cpus. That is actually very common.

The difference between actual and possible cpus only has to be the number
of processors that could be brought up later. In a regular system that is
pretty much zero. In a fancy system with actual hotpluggable cpus there
would be a difference but usually the number of hotpluggable cpus is
minimal.

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