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Commit 7c142bfe authored by Baoquan He's avatar Baoquan He Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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docs: kernel-parameter: Improve the description of nr_cpus and maxcpus



From the old description people still can't get what's the exact
difference between nr_cpus and maxcpus. Especially in kdump kernel
nr_cpus is always suggested if it's implemented in the ARCH. The
reason is nr_cpus is used to limit the max number of possible cpu
in system, the sum of already plugged cpus and hot plug cpus can't
exceed its value. However maxcpus is used to limit how many cpus
are allowed to be brought up during bootup.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBaoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 6d232c80
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