Re: Possible bug in 2.6.34 slub

[Bill Davidsen]

Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 01:39:43 +0200 Giangiacomo Mariotti wrote:
>
> > Hi, I've recently noticed this line on the dmesg output(kernel 2.6.34):
> > [    0.000000] SLUB: Genslabs=14, HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0,
> > CPUs=16, Nodes=1
> >
> > My cpu is an I7 920, so it has 4 cores and there's hyperthreading
> > enabled, so there are 8 logical cpus. Is this a bug?
>
>
> No, it's just some boot/init time information.
I would consider it a bug to claim CPUs=xx when xx is something other than the 
number of cores or the number of SMT threads supported by the processor. Of 
course if /proc/cpuinfo shows four siblings per core or something exciting, then 
it's right and you have a CPU you can sell to gizmodo and tell them a drunk left 
on the bar.

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