[PATCH 0/1] [Yakkety] UBUNTU: [Config] Increase the NR_CPUS to 8K for amd64 to support systems with a large number of cores.

Colin Ian King colin.king at canonical.com
Tue Nov 29 16:46:49 UTC 2016


On 29/11/16 16:44, Tim Gardner wrote:
> On 11/22/2016 08:35 AM, Brad Figg wrote:
>> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1579205
>>
>> Brad Figg (1):
>>   UBUNTU: [Config] Increase the NR_CPUS to 8K for amd64 to support
>>     systems with a     large number of cores.
>>
>>  debian.master/config/amd64/config.common.amd64 | 2 +-
>>  debian.master/config/annotations               | 2 +-
>>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
> 
> I'd be a lot more comfortable with 512. Even though Yakkety had 8192 for
> awhile, it never really got widespread testing. Tripping over 512 causes
> some other config changes that I think we need to look at closely (for a
> stable kernel).

+1 that.

Any idea what the other config changes were?

Colin
> 
> rtg
> 





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