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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/8] xenalyze: increase NR_CPUS to 256
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 19:58:28 +0200
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On Mon, Jun 15, Andrew Cooper wrote:

> In an ideal world, userspace tools like this should not really be tied
> to NR_CPUS or MAX_CPUS.  They should get max_cpu_id from Xen and
> dynamically allocate a bitmap of sufficient size.

The dumps are taken on one machine and get inspected on another, which
may not even be a dom0. I like the idea with dynamically allocate the
array size, based on a cmdline option. Once I find the time I will
implement it.

Olaf