Re: [discuss] Re: 2.6.13-rc2 with dual way dual core ck804 MB

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 05:43:23PM -0700, yhlu wrote:
> Yes, I mean more aggressive
> 
> static void __init smp_init(void)
> {
>         unsigned int i;
> 
>         /* FIXME: This should be done in userspace --RR */
>         for_each_present_cpu(i) {
>                 if (num_online_cpus() >= max_cpus)
>                         break;
>                 if (!cpu_online(i))
>                         cpu_up(i);
>         }
> 
> 
> let cpu_up take one array instead of one int.

It can be done already by just not starting the CPUs and
then do it multithreaded from user space using sysfs with
the CPU hotplug infrastructure. Unfortunately cpu_up
right now has a global semaphore, so it won't save you any
time. However it could be done in parallel with other 
startup jobs.

-Andi
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