On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Really? So then people should be designing for 128 CPU machines, right?
> Linux only supports 99 CPUs. At 100, "ksoftirqd_CPU100" overflows
> task_struct.comm[].
> Just thought I'd sneak in that helpful observation.
Wasn't someone looking at fixing that problem so it didn't need a per-cpu
thread ? 128 kernel threads sitting around waiting for a problem that
rarely happens seems a little.. strange. (for want of a better word).
Dave.
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