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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: "Thomas 'Dent' Mirlacher" <dent@cosy.sbg.ac.at>
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Subject: Re: [patch] CONFIG_NR_CPUS
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On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 11:23:11PM +0200, Thomas 'Dent' Mirlacher wrote:
 > > and then go edit every SMP-capable arch's config.in/Config.help
 > > files.  But the arch maintainers should test one case please - x86
 > > was locking up at boot on quad CPU with NR_CPUS=2.  Others may do
 > > the same.
 > 
 > well, what you need to do is make sure smp_num_cpu <= NR_CPUS,
 > otherwise the kernel will go ballistic on several places within
 > the code.

*nod*, relying on the user to get it right may not be as simple
as it seems. Quite a few people were pleasantly surprised when
their 2-way P4 Xeon become a 4-way HT P4 box.

        Dave

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