Re: [PATCH] i386 !NUMA node_to_cpumask broken in early boot

[Andi Kleen]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 08:07:53PM -0600, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> node_to_cpumask on non NUMA systems is broken if used before all the 
> processors have been brought up as it returns cpu_online_map, as opposed 
> to NUMA i386 systems which does it earlier than AP bringup. So return 
> which processors responded via cpu_present_map and switch to 
> cpu_online_map during normal runtime. This was found whilst testing a 
> patch which does node dependent work before APs have all gone online.

Very ugly and will probably cause code bloat.

If anything define a special early_node_to ... function for this.

-Andi
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