Ashok Raj wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 08:08:09AM -0800, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> >
> > powerpc/ppc64, for instance, determines the number of possible cpus
> > from information exported by firmware (and I'm mystified as to why
> > other platforms don't do this). So it's typical to have a kernel an a
> > pSeries partition with NR_CPUS=128, but cpu_possible_map = 0xff.
> >
>
> Iam assuming in the above ase, cpu_possible_map == cpu_present_map and both
> dont change after the OS is booted. v.s in platforms capable of hot-plug
> cpus present could grow up to cpu_possible_map (max) when a new cpu is
> newly added, that wasnt even present at boot time.
No, cpu_present_map need not equal cpu_possible_map. Of course
cpu_possible_map doesn't change after boot, but cpu_present_map can.
Apart from that, I don't really understand what you're trying to say
here.
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