Re: [PATCH V3 0/4] genirq/affinity: irq vector spread among online CPUs as far as possible

From: Artem Bityutskiy
Date: Tue Mar 13 2018 - 04:39:48 EST


On Tue, 2018-03-13 at 16:35 +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> Then looks this issue need to fix by making possible CPU count
> accurate
> because there are other resources allocated according to
> num_possible_cpus(),
> such as percpu variables.

Short term the regression should be fixed. It is already v4.16-rc6, we
have little time left.

Longer term, yeah, I agree. Kernel's notion of possible CPU count
should be realistic.

Artem.