Re: [PATCH V3 01/14] blk-mq: add blk_mq_max_nr_hw_queues()

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Aug 11 2023 - 09:10:59 EST


On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 08:09:27AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> 1) some archs support 'nr_cpus=1' for kdump kernel, which is fine, since
> num_possible_cpus becomes 1.
>
> 2) some archs do not support 'nr_cpus=1', and have to rely on
> 'max_cpus=1', so num_possible_cpus isn't changed, and kernel just boots
> with single online cpu. That causes trouble because blk-mq limits single
> queue.

And we need to fix case 2. We need to drop the is_kdump support, and
if they want to force less cpus they need to make nr_cpus=1 work.