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Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAXCPU alterable in kernel config - needs testers
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> Current MD code does not provide useful CPU topology data structure,
> it is impossible to write a locality aware scheduler for sun4v and other
> NUMA architectures.

This is incorrect with respect to sun4v. The MD code obtains a "machine
description" from the hypervisor. You are correct in that there is no
interface to MI code.

					-Kip