On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:48:02 -0400 (EDT)
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> 
> Hmm, I assumed (but could be wrong) that on boot up, the system checked 
> how many CPUs were physically possible, and updated the possible CPU 
> mask accordingly (default being NR_CPUS).
> 
> If this is not the case, then I'll have to implement hot plug allocation. 
> :-/
> 

I have no idea, but every system doesn't suffer from this problem so
there is something more to this. Modern fedora kernels have NR_CPUS set
to 512, and it's not like I'm missing 1.5 GB here. :)

Rgds
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