MAXCPU preparations
Robert Watson
rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Mon Sep 27 21:42:27 UTC 2010
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, John Baldwin wrote:
> Also, I think we should either fix MAXCPU to export the SMP value to
> userland, or hide it from userland completely. Exporting the UP value is
> Just Wrong (tm).
Well, it's useful in the sense that it tells you what the maximum number of
CPUs a kernel can support is, which is helpful, especially if you're futzing
with MAXCPU as a kernel option :-).
But, more generally, many things that use MAXCPU should probably use either
mp_maxid or DPCPU. Not everything, but most things.
Robert
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