On 1/11/21 9:57 AM, Vanshidhar Konda wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 10:56:36AM +0000, Will Deacon wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 09, 2021 at 09:36:15PM -0800, vanshiko...@os.amperecomputing.com >> wrote: >>> From: Vanshidhar Konda <vanshiko...@os.amperecomputing.com> >>> >>> Increase the default value of NR_CPUS to 512 from 256. This will >>> enable the defconfig kernel to support platforms that have upto >>> 512 cores. >> >> Do we already support such a platform, and what is it? I'm fine with bumping. >> the number, it's just nice to be able to say specifically _why_ we're dong >> it. > > I'm not aware of any publicly available systems that run into the 256 > core limitation. At Ampere we have internal systems that would benefit > from this change as they support more than 256 cores.
But what does that have to do with the default value? Do you expect to run defconfig kernels? I don't ever expect that. -- ~Randy
