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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] rps: core implementation
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:44:25 +0100
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Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> writes:
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> 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 only case left is virtualization, but there the ratio of online
cores vs possible is not that large typically.

-Andi

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