linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.27rc1 cannot boot more than 8CPUs

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Date:	Wed, 6 Aug 2008 23:33:18 +0800
From:	"Jeff Chua" <jeff.chua.linux@...il.com>
To:	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Max Krasnyansky" <maxk@...lcomm.com>,
	"Li Zefan" <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.27rc1 cannot boot more than 8CPUs

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@...il.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> 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.
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