From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.27rc1 cannot boot more than 8CPUs
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:53:46 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48992E5A.3050303@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48992D35.9020005@qualcomm.com>
Max Krasnyansky wrote:
> Jeff Chua wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Are you running 32-bit kernel ?
>>
>> Yes. But, does it matter?
>
> It used to. 64-bit kernel used to handle maxcpus option as documented in
> the Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt and 32-bit one was broken.
> I just looked at the latest code and realized that both are now broken.
> They ignore cpu id > maxcpus instead of not-booting them.
>
Yes. I have an x86_64 box with 4 cpus, but yesterday when I booted up with maxcpus=2,
I didn't see the other 2 cpus.
> I'll send a patch that fixes that tomorrow.
>
greate :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-06 5:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-06 3:15 2.6.27rc1 cannot boot more than 8CPUs 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 [this message]
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
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-08-06 11:09 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
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
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
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