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Subject: Re: SMP Panic caused by [PATCH] sched: consolidate sched domains
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 13:07, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> I've up and downed a few CPUs on an Altix, and it seems to work ok, but that's 
> a pretty basic test.  How about this?

Well, like I told Bill.  It's not a priori correct because now you're
altering runtime behaviour.

It may, in fact, work because if the runtime users have an additional
restriction to online cpus, but that's not a given ... have you audited
the code for this?

James