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SubjectRe: [PATCH] arm64, defconfig: Increase NR_CPUS default to 64
On 08.09.14 15:00:47, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 08 September 2014 13:44:48 Robert Richter wrote:
> > From: Robert Richter <rrichter@cavium.com>
> >
> > Raising the current maximum limit to 64. This is needed for Cavium's
> > Thunder systems that will have at least 48 cores per die.
> >
> > The change keeps the current memory footprint in cpu mask structures.
> > It does not break existing code. Setting the maximum to 64 cpus still
> > boots systems with less cpus.
> >
> > Mark's Juno happily booted with a NR_CPUS=64 kernel.
> >
> > Tested on our Thunder system with 48 cores. We could see interrupts to
> > all cores.
> >
> > Cc: Radha Mohan Chintakuntla <rchintakuntla@cavium.com>
> > Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@cavium.com>
> >
>
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> FWIW, have you tried what happens when you increase the number further?
> We have architectures on which we support thousands of CPUs, so I wonder
> if there is a point at which this stops working on ARM64.
>
> Are you able to compile and boot a kernel built with e.g. NR_CPUS=256 or
> 4096 on your hardware?

We haven't tried this so far, but it's definitely on our list testing
this.

-Robert


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