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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] compile-time configurable NR_CPUS
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:42:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020829214230.GH888@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1030635200.939.2561.camel@phantasy>

On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:33:20AM -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> diff -urN linux-2.5.32/arch/i386/config.in linux/arch/i386/config.in
--- linux-2.5.32/arch/i386/config.in	Tue Aug 27 15:26:39 2002
+++ linux/arch/i386/config.in	Wed Aug 28 19:15:32 2002
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@
       define_bool CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC y
    fi
 else
+   int  'Maximum number of CPUs (2-32)' CONFIG_NR_CPUS 32
    bool 'Multiquad NUMA system' CONFIG_MULTIQUAD
 fi
 

Could you make CONFIG_NR_CPUS only for non-NUMA-Q systems and hardwire
it to 32 for NUMA-Q, as the bugs in io_apic.c don't have fixes yet and
NUMA-Q's have enough IO-APIC's to trigger the bugs.


Thanks,
Bill

  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-29 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-29 15:33 [PATCH] compile-time configurable NR_CPUS Robert Love
2002-08-29 21:42 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-08-29 21:44   ` Robert Love
2002-08-29 21:56     ` William Lee Irwin III

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