Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758761AbYHFPdo (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2008 11:33:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758547AbYHFPdV (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2008 11:33:21 -0400 Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.46.29]:37583 "EHLO yw-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754933AbYHFPdU (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2008 11:33:20 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=DLFU9XWBQsVWJpZss+riOOcZIUQQgFT/aqUXbesW+7I5NCeAlwdvx1fZ7DkXCG5DA/ 7tN4PyA7auOa42PwONsfBuwvym32SAA2xx4ZEPWAKZK691TPF/Q5c+qz2o4fcU7889n9 nJ1DBdqN39t6v+v3y7/F9XhqGYLEPLHsEwDzQ= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 23:33:18 +0800 From: "Jeff Chua" To: "Linus Torvalds" , "Yinghai Lu" , "David Miller" , "Max Krasnyansky" , "Li Zefan" Subject: Re: 2.6.27rc1 cannot boot more than 8CPUs Cc: lkml In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 927 Lines: 23 On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Jeff Chua wrote: > On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Linus Torvalds > wrote: >> One trivial thing to try would be to just bisect it. I assume 2.6.26 is > Bisecting now. Thanks to all the great helpful suggestions from everyone, and this turns out that I just need to enable the following switches, so I didn't bisect further, and since it's first machine that I've tried with more than 8 CPUs so I wasn't sure whether 2.6.16 has the same problem, but if you wish, I could give 2.6.16 a try. > CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH=y > CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP=y Thank you all for the great linux kernel! Jeff. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/