Mike Larkin <mlarkin@nested.page> wrote:

> I had a long reply typed up about the fact that we probably know the
> number of CPUs by the time the first network driver attaches but then
> realized that doesn't then solve the question of when the softnet tasks
> would be created. It would have to be shimmed in somewhere after cpuX
> but before any network driver, and that would be less clean than your
> approach below.

I think we had an architecture where the other cpu's attached very, very late.

Was it sgi?