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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de>
To: cw@f00f.org (Chris Wedgwood)
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Subject: Re: How many pentium-3 processors does SMP support?
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In article <20010711015128.E31799@weta.f00f.org> you wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 10:34:24PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>     It supports up to 32, if you can find a machine that has that
>     many.
>
> I think 8-way is about as high as anything common goes to, maybe
> 16. The cpu array is declared 32 long, maybe this should be changed to
> 8 by default?

Why limit the user?  There are more than enough Linux system that have
more than 32 CPUs (SGI, DEC, Sun).

Making it a per-architecture value or even a config option make a lot
more sense.

	Christoph

-- 
Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
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