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From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: will schmidt <will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	PPC64 External List <linuxppc64-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][PPC64] lparcfg seq_file updates (pass2)
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 14:34:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1088717644.21679.266.camel@nighthawk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40E47EE5.3020002@vnet.ibm.com>

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 14:15, will schmidt wrote:
>       - Answering Dave's question on the lparcfg_count_active_processors()
> 	function..  This is for the cases where we have some number of
> 	virtual processors that are different than the number of physical
> 	processors in the system.  This doesnt happen on most systems, but
> 	does occur in some of the partitioned configurations.  I've
> 	added a similar comment above the function.

But, shouldn't the number of virtual processors be what shows up in
sysfs and /proc/cpuinfo?  I can understand exporting the number total in
the machine, because that's not normally visible, but I think the number
visible to Linux is redundant.

-- Dave


      reply	other threads:[~2004-07-01 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-01 21:15 [PATCH][PPC64] lparcfg seq_file updates (pass2) will schmidt
2004-07-01 21:34 ` Dave Hansen [this message]

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