The code has definitely been broken for SCHED_ULE, which is a default
scheduler. It may have been broken for SCHED_4BSD in more subtle ways,
e.g. with manually configured CPU affinities and for interrupt devilery
purposes.
We still provide a way to disable individual CPUs or all hyperthreading
"twin" CPUs before SMP startup. See the UPDATING entry for details.
Interaction between building CPU topology and disabling CPUs still
remains fuzzy: topology is first built using all availble CPUs and then
the disabled CPUs should be "subtracted" from it. That doesn't work
well if the resulting topology becomes non-uniform.
This work is done in cooperation with Attilio Rao who in addition to
reviewing also provided parts of code.
PR: kern/145385
Discussed with: gcooper, ambrisko, mdf, sbruno
Reviewed by: attilio
Tested by: pho, pluknet
X-MFC after: never
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