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On 28 Sep 2010, at 17:45, Sean Bruno wrote:

> Working on a dynamic version today.  I'll spam it over to you for =
review
> later. =20
>=20
> I'm moving the percpu struct definitions outside of struct =
memory_type,
> allocating quantity kern.smp.maxcpus, removing the boundary checks =
based
> on MEMSTAT_MAXCPU and then removing MEMSTAT_MAXCPU all together.

Sounds like the right answer. Make sure to also keep the adapt the use =
of maxcpus from crashdumps so that we can also size the data structure =
when analyzing cores (or /dev/kmem or firewire).

Robert=