Bumping MAXCPU on amd64?
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Sep 22 21:06:19 UTC 2010
On Wednesday, September 22, 2010 1:08:30 pm Curtis Penner wrote:
> MAXCPU at 32 has been good in the 32bit days. Soon there will be (if
> not already) systems that will have 16cores/socket or more, and
> motherboards that have 4 sockets or more. Combining this with
> hyper-threading, you have gone significantly beyond the limits of
> feasible server.
My point was in response to Maxim's mail about bumping it from 16. Going
higher than 32 is a bigger project (but in progress-ish) as it involves
transitioning away from a simple int to hold CPU ID bitmasks (cpumask_t) and
using cpuset_t instead.
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John Baldwin
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