2 CPUs, but only one is used

[Giuliano Pochini]

On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 14:41:27 +0100
Giuliano Pochini <pochini at shiny.it> wrote:

> I have a dual G4 MDD mac running linux 2.6.19. When I boot with maxcpus=1 and
> then I issue "echo 1 >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online" the second CPU is
> put online without errors, but it stays idle+wait=100% and of course
> user+system+nice=0%. It works fine without maxcpus=1. No problems with 2.6.18.
>
> I saw that there are some cpu hotplug related changes in 2.6.19, but I have
> no access to a non-ppc dual cpu box to check if the problem also affects
> other architectures right now.

I tried to reproduce the problem on an intel box, but I couldn't. /sys
contains only the cpu0 file if it boots with maxcpus=1.


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Giuliano.