x86/kconfig: Bump default NR_CPUS from 8 to 64 for 64-bit configuration

Default NR_CPUS==8 is not enough to cover high-end desktop
configuration: Haswell-E has upto 16 threads.

Let's increase default NR_CPUS to 64 on 64-bit configuration.
With this value CPU bitmask will still fit into one unsigned long.

Default for 32-bit configuration is still 8: it's unlikely
anybody will run 32-bit kernels on modern hardware.

As an alternative we could bump NR_CPUS to 128 to cover all
dual-processor servers with some margin.

For reference: Debian and Suse build their kernels with
NR_CPUS==512, Fedora -- 1024.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431080745-19792-1-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 226d5696e1d1dd5fe715124710b0f2cd04f8c495..83cd1c7aa409896c610ee58f1178d76ab78ba3c4 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -851,7 +851,8 @@ config NR_CPUS
        default "1" if !SMP
        default "8192" if MAXSMP
        default "32" if SMP && X86_BIGSMP
-       default "8" if SMP
+       default "8" if SMP && X86_32
+       default "64" if SMP
        ---help---
          This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this
          kernel will support.  If CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is enabled, the maximum