Heads-up: MAXCPU increasing shortly
- In reply to: Ed Maste : "Support for more than 256 CPU cores"
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Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2023 14:14:12 UTC
On Fri, 5 May 2023 at 09:38, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote: > > FreeBSD supports up to 256 CPU cores in the default kernel configuration > (on Tier-1 architectures). Systems with more than 256 cores are > available now, and will become increasingly common over FreeBSD 14’s > lifetime. The FreeBSD Foundation is supporting the effort to increase > MAXCPU, and PR269572[1] is open to track tasks and changes. I intend to commit the change to increase amd64 MAXCPU to 1024 very soon. After updating your src tree and building a new kernel you will need to rebuild kernel modules that come from outside of the src tree (such as drm-kmod or VirtualBox). [1] https://bugs.freebsd.org/269572