Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: large system support - 128 CPUs

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13/8/08 11:53, "Bill Burns" <bburns@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> How many CPUs do you currently need/want to support?
>> 
> 
> Currently just looking to get 128 working.
> But would be nice to have some proper sizing,
> or even detection of running out. There is a
> 'last' GDT entry or some such #define, that is
> never used (at least in the 3.1 code base).

I think your 'two pages' change will probably work. Then we just need a
run-time check when bringing a CPU online that there is space in the GDT for
its entries.

 -- Keir



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