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One other note:

> The mbuf subsystem shouldn't look for holes/sparseness in the
> number of cpus.

I'm not sure you understood the dense/sparse issue.

CPUID != #cpus, so in order to keep your semantics of mp_ncpus equal the
maxmimum possible # cpus, mp_ncpus will equal, perforce, the highest possible
cpuid.

-matt



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