How to change the number of processors in a 16-core machine

[Gilboa Davara]

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 10:00 -0500, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 09:52:49AM -0500, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
> > With CPU hotplug, you don't even have to reboot.
> 
> One additional note: Since the Opteron boxes are NUMA, the memory topology
> (and any differences from the online CPU topology) may also affect your
> performance benchmark results.
> 
> 	-Bill

OT question:
If he off-lines a certain CPU - doesn't he also disables all the HT
links that belong to this CPU? (Along with their DRAM banks and I/O
links?)

- Gilboa