On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 01:37:39PM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote: > >> well, it would be good to be able to define chips with different > >> numbers of cpus. That is something will we want to do for sure. > > > > You mean multiple chips in a single system with non-uniform numbers of > > cores? Are there really such systems in the wild? > > > > When CPU fail for some reason, yes. They are garded by the FW and next > boot the system will have different numbers of CPUs on its chip.
Ok, but you can model that with max_cpus the full potential number, then just don't have all of them on initially. The basic topology remains uniform. -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson
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