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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] INET : removes per bucket rwlock in tcp/dccp ehash table
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:05:15 +0100
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Andi Kleen a =E9crit :
>> But I suspect distributions kernels enable CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU so=20
>> num_possible_cpus() will be NR_CPUS.
>=20
> Nope, on x86 num_possible_cpus() is derived from BIOS tables these da=
ys.

Good to know, thank you Andi for this clarification.