Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758898AbYHFQff (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2008 12:35:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753764AbYHFQe4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2008 12:34:56 -0400 Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.46.30]:56189 "EHLO yw-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753535AbYHFQez (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2008 12:34:55 -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=AjWJGrkmfjj1kt7RPDvHvQBqoSmVC3Ph3JiXW7ABDJlRbj+H8Xnp0ks4+vAtBgkJHd Lcb0sNQW+Oi8PjqgefaWyJKuFG5swb+uVIX+FR5PZtZRqqDFxFAGXlTmnAV9LuASc62P fHG17HaLlpvo+YY36A8yBI8fxAKLUKmg+3BpU= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 00:34:52 +0800 From: "Jeff Chua" To: "Yinghai Lu" Subject: Re: 2.6.27rc1 cannot boot more than 8CPUs Cc: "David Miller" , "Linux Kernel" In-Reply-To: <86802c440808060913p327da9dfr7a96ef6676cd0295@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <86802c440808060913p327da9dfr7a96ef6676cd0295@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 856 Lines: 22 On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote: > actually x86_pc is one mode of genericarch..., genericarch already > could detect pc, bigsmp, and numaq, es7000, bigsmp, visew.. It seems to get "sparse mem", NUMA must be set first, but this is not required for X86_PC. > in the dmesg when booting x86_pc only, we already have warning to let > you set bigsmp if you have 8 more cpus. With more than 8 CPUs and upon boot up and hangs, Shift+PgUp does not work, so it's not possible to view console messages except those on the current page, so I guess I missed that hint. 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/