Say that NCPUS is an upper bound and that more detected CPUs boot with min(eligible, NCPUS). --- configfrag-first.ac | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/configfrag-first.ac b/configfrag-first.ac index 22e34af..9ed1f45 100644 --- a/configfrag-first.ac +++ b/configfrag-first.ac @@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE([pae], # Multiprocessor support is still broken. AH_TEMPLATE([MULTIPROCESSOR], [set things up for a uniprocessor]) AC_ARG_ENABLE([ncpus], - AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-ncpus=N], [specify the maximum number of cpus to be supported]), + AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-ncpus=N], [compile-time upper bound on supported CPUs; + a valid APIC topology with more detected CPUs boots with min(eligible, N)]), [mach_ncpus=$enable_ncpus], [mach_ncpus=1]) AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([NCPUS], [$mach_ncpus], [number of CPUs])
