online, possible and disabled cpus

Srivatsa Bhat bhat.srivatsa at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 03:08:46 EDT 2012


Hi,

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Robert P. J. Day
<rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Srivatsa Bhat wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> You might want to take a look at Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt for
>> some details regarding online/possible CPUs...
>
>   ah, quite so, although that file is definitely out of date.  it
> doesn't mention the command-line parameters "nosmp" or "nr_cpus="
> which are defined in kernel/smp.c.  more in a bit ...
>

I believe you'll find them in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt. Of course,
it would be good to have them documented or at least mentioned in the
above file (cpu-hotplug.txt) as well..

Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat



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