1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.c b/arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.c
index db120174aa7e..4f95c9cf7957 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.c
@@ -38,12 +38,6 @@
 int smp_found_config;
 unsigned int __initdata maxcpus = NR_CPUS;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
-#define CPU_HOTPLUG_ENABLED     (1)
-#else
-#define CPU_HOTPLUG_ENABLED     (0)
-#endif
-
 /*
  * Various Linux-internal data structures created from the
  * MP-table.
@@ -204,7 +198,14 @@ static void __devinit MP_processor_info (struct mpc_config_processor *m)
         cpu_set(num_processors, cpu_possible_map);
         num_processors++;
 
-        if (CPU_HOTPLUG_ENABLED || (num_processors > 8)) {
+        /*
+         * Would be preferable to switch to bigsmp when CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y
+         * but we need to work other dependencies like SMP_SUSPEND etc
+         * before this can be done without some confusion.
+         * if (CPU_HOTPLUG_ENABLED || num_processors > 8)
+         *       - Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
+         */
+        if (num_processors > 8) {
                 switch (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor) {
                 case X86_VENDOR_INTEL:
                         if (!APIC_XAPIC(ver)) {