Re: net/core/flow.c cpu handling?

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 10:50:50PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:

Very likely, the code is how it is in order to make the
2.4.x backport of this code and the 2.6.x version as
similar as humanly possible.

Well, the current code is wrong for 2.6 and breaks badly for machines
with more than 32/64 cpus.

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On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 15:11:45 +0000
Christoph Hellwig [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 10:50:50PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:

quoted

Very likely, the code is how it is in order to make the
2.4.x backport of this code and the 2.6.x version as
similar as humanly possible.

Well, the current code is wrong for 2.6 and breaks badly for machines
with more than 32/64 cpus.

I totally understand, I am in no way trying to justify what
the code is doing.