Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:12:00 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: How many pentium-3 processors does SMP support? |
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In article <20010711015128.E31799@weta.f00f.org> you wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 10:34:24PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > It supports up to 32, if you can find a machine that has that > many. > > I think 8-way is about as high as anything common goes to, maybe > 16. The cpu array is declared 32 long, maybe this should be changed to > 8 by default?
Why limit the user? There are more than enough Linux system that have more than 32 CPUs (SGI, DEC, Sun).
Making it a per-architecture value or even a config option make a lot more sense.
Christoph
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