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From: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Kurt Newman <knewman@globaldataguard.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.32.1 kernel unable to use more than 2 of 16 CPUs on Intel E5540 (i7)
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:23:59 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C23F71F.7000806@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adahbksqe71.fsf@roland-alpha.cisco.com>

On 06/24/2010 04:05 PM, Roland Dreier wrote:
> Your config seems to have CONFIG_PM and therefore CONFIG_ACPI disabled.
> So the kernel is relying on mptable information.  Unsurprisingly on a
> modern system, that info is probably broken -- since everything would
> have been tested with ACPI.
>
> Try turning on CONFIG_ACPI and see if that helps at all.

Indeed, not having ACPI enabled will prevent any multi-core CPU 
detection. ACPI really has to be enabled for any modern x86 system to 
work properly.

I'd think that the CONFIG_ACPI really should be defaulted on more 
strongly - maybe force it on if CONFIG_EMBEDDED isn't set or something..

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-25  0:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-24 21:45 2.6.32.1 kernel unable to use more than 2 of 16 CPUs on Intel E5540 (i7) Kurt Newman
2010-06-24 22:05 ` Roland Dreier
2010-06-25  0:23   ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2010-06-25 21:51   ` Kurt Newman

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