Re: [PATCH] ARM64: Dynamically allocate cpumasks and increase supported CPUs to 512

From: Christoph Lameter (Ampere)
Date: Wed Jan 17 2024 - 15:10:21 EST


On Tue, 16 Jan 2024, Eric Mackay wrote:


It seems > 256 was chosen as the cutoff simply because it preserves existing behavior.
The patch description seems to imply there was pushback from distro maintainers on just increasing
the default NR_CPUS.

Yup that was it.