[PATCH] powerpc: Make the NR_CPUS max 8192

[PATCH] powerpc: Make the NR_CPUS max 8192

[Michael Neuling]

We can compile and boot with NR_CPUS=8192, so make this the max.  1024
was an arbitrary decision anyway.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
--
No, I've not actually booted on a 8192 way machine, although if wishing
made it so.... 

 arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6-ozlabs/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-ozlabs.orig/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
+++ linux-2.6-ozlabs/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
@@ -262,8 +262,8 @@ config SMP
 	  If you don't know what to do here, say N.
 
 config NR_CPUS
-	int "Maximum number of CPUs (2-1024)"
-	range 2 1024
+	int "Maximum number of CPUs (2-8192)"
+	range 2 8192
 	depends on SMP
 	default "32" if PPC64
 	default "4"

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Make the NR_CPUS max 8192

[Michael Ellerman]

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On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 11:13 +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
> We can compile and boot with NR_CPUS=8192, so make this the max.  1024
> was an arbitrary decision anyway.

Is 8192 still arbitrary? Or does something break above that?

cheers

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Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Make the NR_CPUS max 8192

[Michael Neuling]

> > We can compile and boot with NR_CPUS=3D8192, so make this the max.  1024
> > was an arbitrary decision anyway.
> 
> Is 8192 still arbitrary? Or does something break above that?

Yeah, the compile breaks after that with 4K pages.

In drivers/base/node.c we have:
	/* 2008/04/07: buf currently PAGE_SIZE, need 9 chars per 32 bits. */
	BUILD_BUG_ON((NR_CPUS/32 * 9) > (PAGE_SIZE-1));
which causes:
drivers/base/node.c: In function 'node_read_cpumap':
drivers/base/node.c:31: error: size of array 'type name' is negative

I can compile with 16384 CPUs with 64K pages, but it doesn't boot.  

sfr asked for size info for different builds, so I may as well repost
them here:

   text	   data		bss		dec		hex	filename
9237767	3225768		4409996		16873531	101783b	vmlinux.1024
9247355	4769472		7373708		21390535	14664c7	vmlinux.2048
9267239	7857032		13301132	30425403	1d0413b	vmlinux.4096
9302623	14035832	25155980	48494435	2e3f763	vmlinux.8192
9373283	26389360	48865676	84628319	50b535f	vmlinux.16384

config was pseries_defconfig but with 64K pages.

Mikey

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Make the NR_CPUS max 8192

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Mon, 18 May 2009, Michael Neuling wrote:
> > > We can compile and boot with NR_CPUS=3D8192, so make this the max.  1024
> > > was an arbitrary decision anyway.
> > 
> > Is 8192 still arbitrary? Or does something break above that?
> 
> Yeah, the compile breaks after that with 4K pages.
> 
> In drivers/base/node.c we have:
> 	/* 2008/04/07: buf currently PAGE_SIZE, need 9 chars per 32 bits. */
> 	BUILD_BUG_ON((NR_CPUS/32 * 9) > (PAGE_SIZE-1));
> which causes:
> drivers/base/node.c: In function 'node_read_cpumap':
> drivers/base/node.c:31: error: size of array 'type name' is negative
> 
> I can compile with 16384 CPUs with 64K pages, but it doesn't boot.  
> 
> sfr asked for size info for different builds, so I may as well repost
> them here:
> 
>    text	   data		bss		dec		hex	filename
> 9237767	3225768		4409996		16873531	101783b	vmlinux.1024
> 9247355	4769472		7373708		21390535	14664c7	vmlinux.2048
> 9267239	7857032		13301132	30425403	1d0413b	vmlinux.4096
> 9302623	14035832	25155980	48494435	2e3f763	vmlinux.8192
> 9373283	26389360	48865676	84628319	50b535f	vmlinux.16384

Will distros now start pushing NR_CPUS=8192-kernels on us?

With kind regards,

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Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Make the NR_CPUS max 8192

[Michael Neuling]

In message <alpine.LRH.2.00.0905180857060.16754@vixen.sonytel.be> you wrote:
> On Mon, 18 May 2009, Michael Neuling wrote:
> > > > We can compile and boot with NR_CPUS=3D8192, so make this the max.  102
4
> > > > was an arbitrary decision anyway.
> > > 
> > > Is 8192 still arbitrary? Or does something break above that?
> > 
> > Yeah, the compile breaks after that with 4K pages.
> > 
> > In drivers/base/node.c we have:
> > 	/* 2008/04/07: buf currently PAGE_SIZE, need 9 chars per 32 bits. */
> > 	BUILD_BUG_ON((NR_CPUS/32 * 9) > (PAGE_SIZE-1));
> > which causes:
> > drivers/base/node.c: In function 'node_read_cpumap':
> > drivers/base/node.c:31: error: size of array 'type name' is negative
> > 
> > I can compile with 16384 CPUs with 64K pages, but it doesn't boot.  
> > 
> > sfr asked for size info for different builds, so I may as well repost
> > them here:
> > 
> >    text	   data		bss		dec		hex	filenam
e
> > 9237767	3225768		4409996		16873531	101783b	vmlinux
.1024
> > 9247355	4769472		7373708		21390535	14664c7	vmlinux
.2048
> > 9267239	7857032		13301132	30425403	1d0413b	vmlinux
.4096
> > 9302623	14035832	25155980	48494435	2e3f763	vmlinux
.8192
> > 9373283	26389360	48865676	84628319	50b535f	vmlinux
.16384
> 
> Will distros now start pushing NR_CPUS=8192-kernels on us?

Yeah, that's a concern.

Mikey