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Re: [Xen-users] kernel-xen can not recognize more than 32 cores

Subject: Re: [Xen-users] kernel-xen can not recognize more than 32 cores
From: Kevin Maguire <kmaguire@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 15:33:34 +0100 (CET)
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Hi

I've installed xen hypervisor 3.0.3 on CentOS 5.5 from CentOS repository.
The hardware I use is a Tyan server with 48 cores( 4*12-cores processors ).
The original CentOS kernel 2.6.18.194 can recognize 48 cores perfectly, but
when I switch to another kernel to use xen, the kernel recognize only 32
cores!

What do you mean by "another kernel" there - CentOS 5.5 supply a -xen kernel themselves, no?

And just to check, your "new" kernel is compiled for 64 bit, and not 32 bit - 'uname -i' outputs x86_64 - as 32 bit kernel cannot use more than 32 CPUs.

Last, I beleive the 3.0.3 version is a bit misleading, as CentOS follow RedHat and RedHat's xen 3.0.3 will likely have a lot of patches applied to it and be some way on from a vanilla Xen 3.0.3. Check the src.rpm for this.

Kevin


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