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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Subject: Re: Per-cpu patches on top of PDA stuff...
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:10:31 -0400
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On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 19:49 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Because it makes it easier to write other code? We don't really
> want any unnecessary limiting assumptions in arch/i386 just because
> of some obscure machine with one user.

Really?  I don't see it that way.  I did a lot of work back in 2000/2001
to break x86 of its remapped CPU assumptions ... it's been operating
nicely for 6 years, I don't see a reason to break it now.

Also, as we enter the era of hotplug CPUs, when a non voyager x86 system
tells you CPU3 is overheating, how to you find out exactly which CPU to
hot unplug?

James