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RE: [Xen-users] kernel-xen can not recognize more than 32 cores

To: mohammad mohammadi <m_mohammadi_dinani@xxxxxxxxx>, <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] kernel-xen can not recognize more than 32 cores
From: Jeff Sturm <jeff.sturm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 10:21:25 -0500
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Thread-topic: [Xen-users] kernel-xen can not recognize more than 32 cores

We saw the same thing with our Dell R815 servers.  I believe this limit is not due to the kernel, but to the hypervisor.  Most 3.x releases of Xen had harcoded NR_CPUS to 32.

 

Run "xm dmesg" and see how many cores the hypervisor recognizes.

 

From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of mohammad mohammadi
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 8:14 AM
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Subject: [Xen-users] kernel-xen can not recognize more than 32 cores

 

Hi
I've installed xen hypervisor 3.0.3 on CentOS 5.5 from CentOS repository.
The hardware I use is a Tyan server with 48 cores( 4*12-cores processors ).
The original CentOS kernel 2.6.18.194 can recognize 48 cores perfectly, but when I switch to another kernel to use xen, the kernel recognize only 32 cores!
I tried to recompile the kernel by changing the maximum number of cpu in .config file, but nothing changed!
Can anyone help me?
Regards

 

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