Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardwarerelated?

From: Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Date: Fri Jan 12 2001 - 15:34:03 EST


On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Frank de Lange wrote:

> BTW, does this (TARGET_CPUS cpu_online_mask) not wreak havoc with
> systems with hot-pluggable CPUs (many Suns, etc...)? Wouldn;t it be
> better to make this a config option (like the optional PCI fixes for
> crappy BIOSs)?

? this is x86-only code. There is no hot-pluggable CPU support for Linux
AFAIK. (But in any case, the code is basically ready for hot-pluggable
CPUs, just take a few precautions and change cpu_online_mask and a couple
of other things.)

        Ingo

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