Re: Linux/Pro [was Re: Coding style - a non-issue]

Martin J. Bligh (Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com)
Mon, 03 Dec 2001 17:49:33 -0800

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>> 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.

For machines that are 99bit architectures or more, maybe. For 32 bit machines,
your limit is 32, for 64 bit, 64.

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