From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.27rc1 cannot boot more than 8CPUs
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:16:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080813141629.GD19397@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0808061908100.12476@boston.corp.fedex.com>
* Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>>> CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH=y
>>>> CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP=y
>>>> 8 more cpu need bigsmp mode.
>
>> Just found it under " Subarchitecture Type (Generic architecture)",
>> and then it shows the CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP option.
>
> It works. Booted with 16CPUs. 32GB RAM.
btw., could you please check that v2.6.27-rc3 (or later) kernels boot
fine (with about 8 cpus) even if you hae genericarch/bigsmp disabled,
and do not silently hang as it happened on your box before?
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-13 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-06 11:09 2.6.27rc1 cannot boot more than 8CPUs Jeff Chua
2008-08-06 16:13 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-08-06 16:34 ` Jeff Chua
2008-08-11 19:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-13 14:16 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-08-13 17:10 ` Jeff Chua
2008-08-13 17:33 ` Jeff Chua
2008-08-13 17:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-13 17:46 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-08-13 18:33 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-08-14 7:16 ` Jeff Chua
2008-08-14 8:59 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-08-14 9:07 ` Ingo Molnar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-08-15 10:34 Jeff Chua
2008-08-15 14:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-18 3:07 ` Jeff Chua
2008-08-18 8:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-06 3:15 Jeff Chua
2008-08-06 3:31 ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-08-06 3:50 ` Jeff Chua
2008-08-06 3:54 ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-08-06 4:06 ` Jeff Chua
2008-08-06 4:48 ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-08-06 4:53 ` Li Zefan
2008-08-06 20:11 ` Max Krasnyansky
[not found] ` <86802c440808052050u489264beo30812523669ef4df@mail.gmail.com>
2008-08-06 4:05 ` Jeff Chua
2008-08-06 5:19 ` David Miller
2008-08-06 6:42 ` Jeff Chua
2008-08-06 7:18 ` David Miller
2008-08-06 9:33 ` Jeff Chua
2008-08-06 9:36 ` David Miller
2008-08-06 9:50 ` Jeff Chua
2008-08-06 8:49 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-08-06 9:35 ` Jeff Chua
2008-08-06 9:42 ` Jeff Chua
2008-08-06 6:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-06 6:42 ` Jeff Chua
2008-08-06 15:33 ` Jeff Chua
2008-08-11 19:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-11 20:03 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-08-11 20:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-11 20:12 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-08-11 20:36 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-08-11 20:44 ` Ingo Molnar
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