linux-kernel - Re: smpboot seems to be confused on dual EPYC system

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Message-ID: <20180527230550.GD6349@zn.tnic>
Date:   Mon, 28 May 2018 01:05:51 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Gabriel C <nix.or.die@...il.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: smpboot seems to be confused on dual EPYC system

On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 11:22:18PM +0200, Gabriel C wrote:
>  The problem is that being wrong ..
> 
>   >[    0.562171] smpboot: Max logical packages: 4
> 
>   These are max 2 not 4.

So the whole "problem" is that it miscounts max packages. Which means we
waste a couple of KBs of memory, tops.

Any other, real problems you're experiencing?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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