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Date:      Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:04:56 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        Curtis Penner <curtis.penner2@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Bumping MAXCPU on amd64?
Message-ID:  <201009221704.56514.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4C9A380E.7070807@gmail.com>
References:  <4C99DC48.1020208@FreeBSD.org> <201009220937.13155.jhb@freebsd.org> <4C9A380E.7070807@gmail.com>

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On Wednesday, September 22, 2010 1:08:30 pm Curtis Penner wrote:
> MAXCPU at 32 has been good in the 32bit days.  Soon there will be (if 
> not already) systems that will have 16cores/socket or more, and 
> motherboards that have 4 sockets or more.  Combining this with 
> hyper-threading, you have gone significantly beyond the limits of 
> feasible server.

My point was in response to Maxim's mail about bumping it from 16.  Going 
higher than 32 is a bigger project (but in progress-ish) as it involves 
transitioning away from a simple int to hold CPU ID bitmasks (cpumask_t) and 
using cpuset_t instead.

-- 
John Baldwin



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