Subject: [PATCH] arm64, defconfig: Increase NR_CPUS default to 64

From: [email-masked] (Robert Richter)
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 15:28:43 +0200

On 08.09.14 15:00:47, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 08 September 2014 13:44:48 Robert Richter wrote:
> > From: Robert Richter <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > Raising the current maximum limit to 64. This is needed for Cavium's
> > Thunder systems that will have at least 48 cores per die.
> > 
> > The change keeps the current memory footprint in cpu mask structures.
> > It does not break existing code. Setting the maximum to 64 cpus still
> > boots systems with less cpus.
> > 
> > Mark's Juno happily booted with a NR_CPUS=64 kernel.
> > 
> > Tested on our Thunder system with 48 cores. We could see interrupts to
> > all cores.
> > 
> > Cc: Radha Mohan Chintakuntla <[email-masked]>
> > Cc: Mark Rutland <[email-masked]>
> > Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <[email-masked]>
> > 
> 
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email-masked]>
> 
> FWIW, have you tried what happens when you increase the number further?
> We have architectures on which we support thousands of CPUs, so I wonder
> if there is a point at which this stops working on ARM64.
> 
> Are you able to compile and boot a kernel built with e.g. NR_CPUS=256 or
> 4096 on your hardware?

We haven't tried this so far, but it's definitely on our list testing
this.

-Robert