Public bug reported:
Intel Knights Landing systems boot up to 272 processor cores. The stock
Ubuntu Linux kernel images leave processor cores above 256 disabled:
[ 0.000000] ACPI: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 256 reached. Processor
256/0xeb ignored.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 256 reached. Processor
257/0xef ignored.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 256 reached. Processor
258/0xf3 ignored.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 256 reached. Processor
259/0xf7 ignored.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 256 reached. Processor
260/0xfb ignored.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 256 reached. Processor
261/0xff ignored.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 256 reached. Processor
262/0x103 ignored.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 256 reached. Processor
263/0x107 ignored.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 256 reached. Processor
264/0x10b ignored.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 256 reached. Processor
265/0x10f ignored.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 256 reached. Processor
266/0x113 ignored.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 256 reached. Processor
267/0x117 ignored.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 256 reached. Processor
268/0x11b ignored.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 256 reached. Processor
269/0x11f ignored.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 256 reached. Processor
270/0x123 ignored.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 256 reached. Processor
271/0x127 ignored.
I'd request an increase in CONFIG_NR_CPUS to 512. This would match
Debian's default setting. For comparison, RHEL/CentOS ship with 4096.
** Affects: linux-meta (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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CONFIG_NR_CPUS=256 is too low
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