[PATCH 7/7] powerpc numa: Consolidate assignment of cpus to nodes

[Michael Ellerman]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 06:16, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 10:38 -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > By the way, what do the "l" and "h" in front of "cpu" mean anyway?
>
> "logical" and "hot"?  I dunno, just seemed to be the convention in other
> cpu notifiers at the time the code was written.

Ouch, that's unfortunate. In the powerpc code hcpu _usually_ means hard cpu 
number, as opposed to logical (lcpu). In this case though it looks like hcpu 
holds the logical cpu number, which is a bit icky. That might be worth 
fixing.

cheers

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