Re: 2.6.12-rc5 is broken in nvidia Ck804 Opteron MB/with dual cor e dual way

[Siddha, Suresh B]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 03:03:50PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:56:25AM -0700, YhLu wrote:
>  > Really?,  smp_num_siblings is global variable and initially is set 1.
> 
> Why shouldn't it be ? It would only make sense to make it
> non-global if we supported a configuration where different
> CPUs had different numbers of siblings, which we don't.
> (And I'm fairly sure that AMD/Intel don't/won't either)

It will help if someone uses "maxcpus" boot param or if someone
wants to disable/enable certain logical siblings using HOTPLUG.

That is conceptually more cleaner too. Will do it post 2.6.12.

thanks,
suresh
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