Hi Joe, On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 08:58:09PM -0500, Joe Korty wrote: > IIRC, some years ago I ran across a customer system where > the #cpus_present was twice as big as #cpus_possible. > > Hyperthreading was turned off in the BIOS so it was not > entirely out of line for the extra cpus to be declared > present, even though none of them would ever be available > for use.
This sounds like a system we should quirk around instead of optimizing for it. Unless I totally misunderstand the idea behind cpu_possible and cpu_present.
