Siddha, Suresh B wrote: > > I added it so that these entries will not confuse users of a non-smt/mc > systems. But mixed type of processors and cpu hotplug really complicates the > things.. Yes, it does. :-) > May be a check of something like "is this platform capable of > supporting any multi-core/multi-threaded processor package?" helps.. > > As there is no well defined mechanism to find out that and for simplicity > reasons, we should probably go with Tony's suggestion. > > Russ I can post a patch, removing both smt_capable() and mc_capable() > checks. Yes, please do. > Today this sysfs variable is not documented. But when it happens, we > need to clearly document that these variables have no meaning when > the system doesn't have cpus with threads/cores. -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@xxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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