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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:43:53 -0700 From: Mike Travis <travis@....com> To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, "William L. Irwin" <wli@...omorphy.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] init: move setup of nr_cpu_ids to as early as possible v2 Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Mike Travis <travis@....com> wrote: > >> Move the setting of nr_cpu_ids from sched_init() to >> setup_per_cpu_areas(), so that it's available as early as possible. > > hm, why not a separate call before setup_per_cpu_areas(), so that we can > avoid spreading this from generic kernel into a bunch of architectures > that happen to have their own version of setup_per_cpu_areas(): > >> 7 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) > > Ingo I had this before but I then discovered that an arch would increase (and possible decrease) it's number of possible cpus in setup_per_cpu_areas(). So I figured that setting nr_cpu_ids (and the cpumask_of_cpu map) should be a side effect of setup_per_cpu_areas(). Thanks, Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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