On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 03:04:03PM -0700, Elliot Berman wrote: > In a heterogeneous multiprocessor system, specifying the 'maxcpus' > parameter on kernel command line does not provide sufficient control > over which CPUs are brought online at kernel boot time, since CPUs may > have nonuniform performance characteristics. Thus, add bootcpus kernel > parameter to control which CPUs should be brought online during kernel > boot. When both maxcpus and bootcpus is set, the more restrictive of the > two are booted. Why would one wish to do so? Having the ability for abilities sake is no good.
