identifying cpus (and smt threads)

Nathan Lynch nathanl at austin.ibm.com
Fri Jul 23 08:09:01 EST 2004


On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 07:56, R Sharada wrote:

> A few questions here:
> - why is there a cpu_present_at_boot map? It seems to be the same as the
> cpu_available_map. Or did I miss something?

It's cruft and we should get rid of both of those maps and use
cpu_present_map like other architectures (e.g. ia64).  I posted a patch
a few days ago which does this, but it needs more work to accommodate
cpu hotplug.

Nathan


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