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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:44:25 +0100

> Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> Problem of possible cpus is the number can be very large on some arches,
>> but yet few cpus online....
> 
> Actually that should be rare. Especially not very large compared to online.

The ratio can be as high as 256/1 on Niagara boxes.