Re: [PATCH] x86: allow 8 more cpus could be used

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Jan 29 2009 - 17:43:16 EST



* Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Impact: fix left out MARCO
>
> X86_PC will be always enabled. so need to check if we have bigsmp
> support built in before cut off more than 8 cpus.

ah, that's a leftover reference to X86_PC. It can now be removed, together
with the Kconfig X86_PC option.

> -#if defined(CONFIG_X86_PC) && defined(CONFIG_X86_32)
> +#if defined(CONFIG_X86_PC) && !defined(CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP)
> if (def_to_bigsmp && nr_cpu_ids > 8) {
> unsigned int cpu;
> unsigned nr;

Could you please send a patch that removes both X86_PC and X86_BIGSMP -
and removes the above cutoff code too, so that it will be built-in all the
time?

Ingo
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