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Date:      Sat, 14 Jul 2001 13:41:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org>
Cc:        <smp@FreeBSD.ORG>, <audit@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: planned change to mbinit code and minor changes to mp startup
Message-ID:  <20010714134008.F29314-100000@wonky.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010714132629.D29314-100000@wonky.feral.com>

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The more I look at the resource wastage for allocating for CPUs that aren't
active, the more I think that this is not right. You're going to suck down not
only maps but filled buckets.

I would appreciate further discussion on this.

-matt


On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote:

>
> 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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