Re: Bogus "APIC: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 4 reached" messages

From: One Thousand Gnomes
Date: Thu Oct 06 2016 - 07:48:33 EST


On Thu, 6 Oct 2016 13:27:37 +0200
Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On current trunk I get during boot:
>
> [ 0.000000] APIC: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 4 reached. Processor 4/0x84 ignored.
> [ 0.000000] APIC: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 4 reached. Processor 5/0x85 ignored.
>
> I don't think these messages make much sense on a 4-core machine.
>

Four cores with or without hyperthreading ?

Alan