Re: [PATCH] Avoid mask based num_possible_cpus and num_online_cpus -v5

[Venki Pallipadi]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> IIRC playing with 3 archs boot code seemed like a recipe for disaster.
>> Feel free to try to fix this in -next though, and see what breaks...
>
> ia64 is what breaks ... well not actually broken ... but some very
> weird delays that
> show up in different places depending on whether this patch is present.
>
> First linux-next kernel to be blessed with this patch was
> next-20120210. Booting it
> I see:
> [    7.164233] Switching to clocksource itc
> [  146.077315] pnp: PnP ACPI init
>
> An ugly 138.913 second delay.  Digging in the code showed that the bad bits
> happened inside stop_machine()
>
> Reverting just this patch makes this big delay disappear:
>
> [   32.780232] Switching to clocksource itc
> [   32.832100] pnp: PnP ACPI init
>
> but notice that it takes 25 extra seconds to get to this point in the
> boot (and while
> we expect to save some time by not re-computing num_online_cpus each time we
> need it ... this looks to be a lot more than I'd expect!)
>
> -Tony

What is NR_CPUS set to here? And how many actual CPUs are there on this machine?
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