<div dir="ltr"><div>For some more insight, Dillon explained it here a few years ago: <a href="http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2010-12/msg00079.html">http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2010-12/msg00079.html</a></div>
<div>//Jonas</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>--<br>Jonas </div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-02-09 21:26 GMT+01:00 John Marino <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dragonflybsd@marino.st" target="_blank">dragonflybsd@marino.st</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="">On 2/9/2014 21:17, Justin Sherrill wrote:<br>
> You are the second person to mention this that I've heard in the last<br>
> few days. I remember that there was some arbitrary limit on processor<br>
> count in DragonFly - 63, I think. I don't know how much of an obstacle<br>
> that actually is.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>It's not arbitrary.<br>
It's 2^6-1 -- IIUC there are only 6 bits available on some key location<br>
although I am missing some information to explain why the limit isn't 64.<br>
<br>
Anyway, apparently it will take some significant rework to increase the<br>
max CPU count, but I'll leave that for Matt to explain.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
John<br>
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