Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_NR_CPUS, redux

[Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>]

On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 11:21, Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote:

> Perhaps it's just because I'm coming in late, but I cannot understand why
> NR_CPUS cannot be as low as 4 by default, for all archs, and then in the
> kernel boot messages, should more be found than is configured for a message is
> emitted to say "reconfigure your kernel", and continue with the number it was
> configured for. I personally only rarely see 2-way boxes, 4-way is pretty
> rare, and anything more must surely count as very specialized.

Ugh let's stop this thread now.  Two points:

	(a) imo, the kernel should support out-of-the-box the maximum
	    number of CPUs it can handle.  Be lucky we now have a
	    configure option to change that.  But that does not matter..

	(b) Right now it is 32.  Now you can change it... if you want
	    to change the current behavior by _default_ why don't we
	    suggest that _after_ this is accepted into 2.5?  I.e., one
	    battle at a time.

Thanks,

	Robert Love