Re: [PATCH RFC cpumask 4/5] cpumask: Add "last" alias for cpu list specifications

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 06:47:57AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > I don't really see the use of the ranges thing, CPU enumeration just
> > isn't sane like that. Also, I should really add that randomization pass
> > to the CPU enumeration :-)
> 
> Please don't!!!

Why not, the BIOS more or less already does that on a per machine basis
anyway. Doing it per boot just makes things more reliably screwy ;-)