Re: maximum number of CPUs

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 08:36:45AM -0700, Brook Milligan wrote:
> I understand that at least on the i386/amd64 ports CPUs are tracked
> with a 32-bit mask and thus at most 32 CPUs may be active.  How complex
> is the task of removing this limitation so that a larger number of CPUs
> may be used?

I've been locking at this code recently, and I think it's not too hard.
I've not completely checked if the MI part has some limit too.

I intend to look at this in the near future (Xen will be a good way to work
on this, because can start a guest with a large number of CPUs even on a UP
hardware :); hopefully I'll have access to a 64-core system for tests too.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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