Re: x86_64: up to 255 or 256 CPUs?

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Feb 20 2007 - 04:41:44 EST


On Tuesday 20 February 2007 01:42, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:06:47AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Quoting arch/x86_64/Kconfig:
> > <-- snip -->
> > ...
> > config NR_CPUS
> > int "Maximum number of CPUs (2-256)"
> > range 2 255
> > ...
> > <-- snip -->
> > cu
> > Adrian
>
> The broadcast APIC ID clashes with the 256th cpu.

Yes 255 is theory. But we don't know if it actually works anyways because
it has been never tested.

-Andi
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