From f62a91f6911479642c0018290d4248ace4287648 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:42:35 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] x86_64: Don't reserve hotplug CPUs by default Most users don't need it so no need to waste memory. This means an user has to specify the appropiate number of hotplug CPUs on the command line with additional_cpus=... or fix their BIOS to follow the convention in Documentation/x86-64/cpu-hotplug-spec Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt index e566aff..72ab9b9 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ SMP cpumask=MASK only use cpus with bits set in mask additional_cpus=NUM Allow NUM more CPUs for hotplug - (defaults are specified by the BIOS or half the available CPUs) + (defaults are specified by the BIOS, see Documentation/x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec) NUMA diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c index ecbd7b8..043b1d2 100644 --- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c +++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c @@ -927,8 +927,8 @@ int additional_cpus __initdata = -1; * * Three ways to find out the number of additional hotplug CPUs: * - If the BIOS specified disabled CPUs in ACPI/mptables use that. - * - otherwise use half of the available CPUs or 2, whatever is more. * - The user can overwrite it with additional_cpus=NUM + * - Otherwise don't reserve additional CPUs. * We do this because additional CPUs waste a lot of memory. * -AK */ @@ -938,13 +938,10 @@ __init void prefill_possible_map(void) int possible; if (additional_cpus == -1) { - if (disabled_cpus > 0) { + if (disabled_cpus > 0) additional_cpus = disabled_cpus; - } else { - additional_cpus = num_processors / 2; - if (additional_cpus == 0) - additional_cpus = 2; - } + else + additional_cpus = 0; } possible = num_processors + additional_cpus; if (possible > NR_CPUS) -- cgit v0.10.2