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Message-ID: <20070621201219.GC22303@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:12:19 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>, chris@...ee.ca,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] long freezes on thinkpad t60


* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> (And no, on 32-bit x86, we don't allow more than 128 CPU's. I don't 
> think such an insane machine has ever existed).

and if people _really_ want to boot a large-smp 32-bit kernel on some 
new, tons-of-cpus box, as a workaround they can enable the spinlock 
debugging code, which has no limitation on the number of CPUs supported.

	Ingo
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