Re: [PATCH][PPC64] lparcfg seq_file updates (pass2)

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Thu Jul 01 2004 - 16:40:52 EST


On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 14:15, will schmidt wrote:
> - Answering Dave's question on the lparcfg_count_active_processors()
> function.. This is for the cases where we have some number of
> virtual processors that are different than the number of physical
> processors in the system. This doesnt happen on most systems, but
> does occur in some of the partitioned configurations. I've
> added a similar comment above the function.

But, shouldn't the number of virtual processors be what shows up in
sysfs and /proc/cpuinfo? I can understand exporting the number total in
the machine, because that's not normally visible, but I think the number
visible to Linux is redundant.

-- Dave

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